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Opinion: Why I’m resigning from the State Department | CNN (edition.cnn.com)

submitted 7 months ago by WhatWouldKarlDo@lemmygrad.ml to c/us_news@lemmygrad.ml

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One more disillusioned by the lies.

Whatever credibility the United States had as an advocate for human rights has almost entirely vanished since the war began. Members of civil society have refused to respond to my efforts to contact them. Our office seeks to support journalists in the Middle East; yet when asked by NGOs if the US can help when Palestinian journalists are detained or killed in Gaza, I was disappointed that my government didn’t do more to protect them. Ninety Palestinian journalists in Gaza have been killed in the last five months, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. That is the most recorded in any single conflict since the CPJ started collecting data in 1992.

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[–] Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Really, so that was the line? Not stomping Yugoslavia into the ground? Not Iraq and Afghanistan? Not Korea and Vietnam? Not Somalia, Syria, Ukraine?

OK, cool.

United States had as an advocate for human rights has almost entirely vanished

Have fun clinging to the rest of your delusions, pal.

[–] NikkiB@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I feel you're being extremely uncharitable to this person who has likely suffered enormous and lasting consequences for her actions or is about to. At the very least, she has stepped away from her likely substantial and reliable income and has no chance of being employed in a similar capacity. That is no small thing. Think about the effect this could have on the uninformed or undecided.

[–] AdlachGyfiawn@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 7 months ago

It's an objectively good thing they've done, but it's hard not to be frustrated when liberals treat "the USA has a hostile foreign policy" as some sort of revelation when we've been saying it for a hundred years.