The Foreign Service Journal, October 1993
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JOHN PATTERSON of the Foreign Service must, at times, subordinate their personal views to the l SI A Vice President. RAZV1GOR BAZAI.A demands of policy, but, when the dissonance grows too great, they have a moral Retiree Vice President DONALD K NORLAND Sec retan: CATHERINE BARRY and professional obligation to protest, request reassignment, or even to resign. Treasurer. ANNE WOODS PATTERSON State Representatives CHRISTINE FULENA Resignation, the option of last resort, has been chosen now by four foreign- DENNIS KLIX affairs officers working on the Bosnia conflict who could not reconcile Amer¬ JOHN MARIZ SHE SAAR MO ican vacillation with daily reports of massacres, rapes, mutilations, and other DAVID H. SHINN atrocities. All have gone on to uncertain futures; none regrets his decision. AID Representatives. LEE ANN ROSS JAMES R. WASHINGTON The resignations are a conspicuous manifestation of the most acute disaf¬ t SI A Representative: BRUCE WHARTON Retired Representatives: KATHRYN CLARK-BOURNK fection in the Foreign Service since the Vietnam War. It is difficult to find even SAMUEL F. HART a single working-level FSO involved with the former Yugoslavia who agrees M. BRUCE H1RSHORN with current U.S. policy. EDWARD L. PECK Staff It must be said that the State Department and Secretary Christopher have Executive Director SUSAN REARDON accepted the protests with relative grace and have lent an ear to the expressions Business Department Controller. CATHY FREGELETTE of discontent. The problem is not simply one of access; the administration just Office Manager: JUDY SHINN does not agree with these dissenting officers that the United States must inter¬ Executive Assistant MEIKE MEISSNER Accounting Assistant: SHEREE E. BEANE vene. The American public also seems quiescent. Admin isl rat ire Assistants I MANNA DUNBRACK AFSA’s role is one of defending the professionalism and integrity of the For¬ MICHAEL DAILEY Legal Services eign Service, not second-guessing the administration on foreign policy. But Legal Counsel: SHARON PAPP Bosnia is not just any foreign-policy issue. Bosnia is the site of the systematic Staff Attorney: COLLEEN FALLON Late Clerks. EDWIN GANIA extermination of a people in one of those black holes into which ethnic and MEGAN CHUNG religious resentments have been drawn and cynically exploited. In this darkling . Viem her Services Director: JAMES YORKE political no-man’s land, the clashing militias demonstrate that the Cold War’s Representatives: JULIE SMITH LINE DEREK TERRELL sanctioned authoritarianism has been supplanted in ex-Yugoslavia, and poten¬ JENNY NOYES tially throughout the non-democratic world, by a brutal state of nature. Intern; SABRINA PLATT Always mindful of Vietnam, and educated by a profusion of media, the Amer¬ Membership Acting Director: LORI DEC ican people have become far more sophisticated than they were 30 years ago Director: J ANET HEl )RICK about the dangers of intervention. The president and secretary may rightly judge Representative. NORAJANE MdNTYRE that domestic support for intervention in the former Yugoslavia would collapse Professional Issues. RICHARD S. THOMPSON as soon as American blood was spilled there. Without the attenuated threat of Retiree Liaison WARD T HOMPSON the Cold War, they seem to believe that Bosnia engages too little the U.S. na¬ Congressional Liaison. RICK WEISS Scholarship tional interest to merit our blood and treasure. Coordinator and Yet a nation, too, depends upon integrity, vision, and self-confidence as the Systems Administrator. THERESA AURRICHIO Shakers Bureau and currency of leadership. Without tumbling impulsively into war, the United States International Associates:GIL KUL1CK should equally avoid becoming, in George Shultz’s phrase, the “Hamlet of na¬ Conferences: JOHN J. HARTER Tile American Foreign Service Association, founded in 1924. IN the tions.” The problems in Bosnia are tragic and complex, and addressing them professional association of the Foreign Service and tile official will take the collective efforts of our best minds. But U.S. policymakers are representative of all Foreign Service employees in the Department of State, and the United States Infomiation Agency and the Agency ducking their most basic responsibility: to frame the issue for the American peo¬ for International Development under the terms of the Foreign Service Act of 1980. Active or Retired membership in AFSA is open ple and provide leadership for the world in forging an effective response. to all current or retired employees of the U.S. foreign affairs agencies Associate membership is open to persons having an Needed is a new direction for American foreign policy, to replace the com¬ interest m or close association with the Foreign Service. Annual dues. Active Members—$85-188; Retired Members—S'15-62; Asso¬ pass of containment by which we navigated for a half century. Without a new ciate Members—$50. All AFSA members are members of the Foreign Service Club. Please note; AFSA dues and Legislative Action vision, case-by-case diplomacy bespeaks absence of purpose and courage-and Fund donations may be deductible as an ordinary and necessary business expense for federal inu >me tax purposes. Scholarship and portends loss of leadership, respect, and resources at home and abroad. AFSA Fund donations are deductible as charitable contributions. The four resignations should be seen not just as a self-sacrificing expression AMHUCAN FOIUK.N SFHVKT. ASVXJAHON, 2101 EStreet N\Y Washington, D.C 2003“. Executive offices, meniliersliip. professional issues, of indignation and frustration, but as the ultimate appeal for political and moral scholarship programs, insurance programs JOURNAL offices; (202) 338-tO'i5. GJiveming Board, standing committees, general ctmnsel, leadership at the highest level. lalxir-management relations, manlier services, grievances; (202) (Vr-RlOO • FAX: (202) 6 )7-0265 • USL\ Member Services (202) —Tex Harris aOl-6-105 • Foreign Service Club (202) 338-5730. 2 • FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL • OCTOBER 1993 OCTOBER 1993 JOURNAL Editorial Board Chairman BRANDON GROVE JANET BOGUE PHYLLIS