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The Foreign Service Journal, November 2007 FS FICTION REVIVING U.S. LEADERSHIP LATIN AMERICAN AID $3.50 / NOVEMBER 2007 OREIGN ERVICE FJ O U R N A L S THE MAGAZINE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS PROFESSIONALS IN THEIR OWN WRITE Books by Foreign Service Authors OREIGN ERVICE FJ O U R N A L S CONTENTS November 2007 Volume 84, No. 11 F OCUS ON FS Authors IN THEIR OWN WRITE: BOOKS BY FOREIGN SERVICE AUTHORS / 19 Once again we are pleased to feature our compilation of recently published books by Foreign Service-affiliated authors. By Susan Maitra FS FICTION LA VIE ABATI / 41 A bored political officer in a West African backwater volunteers to investigate a regional problem and, ultimately, learns a thing or two. By Hanscom Smith Cover and inside illustration by Marcia Klioze-Hughes F EATURES CAN AMERICAN LEADERSHIP BE RESTORED? / 44 The world before us today is both unfamiliar and unanticipated. PRESIDENT’S VIEWS / 5 Here is a thought-provoking tour d’horizon. Telling Our Story By Chas W. Freeman Jr. By John K. Naland A MARSHALL PLAN FOR LATIN AMERICA / 49 LETTERS / 7 There must be a fundamental revision of our country’s role if we are to make development — and diplomacy — truly “transformational.” CYBERNOTES / 9 By Geoffrey Chalmers MARKETPLACE / 10 EWS SPEAKING OUT / 13 AFSA N Caution: Iraq Is Not Vietnam By David Passage AFSA-HQ UNDER CONSTRUCTION / 55 DISSENT AWARD NOTICE / 55 FS KNOW-HOW / 17 STATE IG SHOULD RESIGN / 55 Mail Handling Tips STATE VP: TIME TO MOBILIZE / 57 By Lee Ackermann RETIREE Q&A: SURVIVOR ANNUITIES / 58 BOOKS / 65 VP FCS: DOMESTIC TOURS / 59 MILESTONES: ED MILTENBERGER / 62 IN MEMORY / 67 CLASSIFIEDS / 62 INDEX TO ADVERTISERS / 74 REFLECTIONS / 76 Why We Were There By Janet Andres NOVEMBER 2007/FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL 3 OREIGN ERVICE FJ O U R N A L S Editor QUESTIONS? Not sure whom to contact? STEVEN ALAN HONLEY Senior Editor FasTrax is your inside source to the right places. SUSAN B. 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In lieu of FAX: (202) 338-8244 or (202) 338-6820 E-MAIL: [email protected] posting a notice on the bulletin board in the Truman Building (we all WEB: www.afsa.org © American Foreign Service Association, 2007. know how convenient that is!), AFSA is offering this pilot classifieds Printed in the U.S.A. Send address changes to: AFSA program as a service to members. As an added bonus, the option to Attn: Address Change 2101 E Street N.W. insert a picture will be available. The basic interface is designed to Washington DC 20037-2990 be concise, effective and, hopefully, user-friendly. Printed on 50-percent recycled paper, of which 10 percent is post-consumer waste. 4 FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL/NOVEMBER 2007 PRESIDENT’S VIEWS Telling Our Story BY JOHN K. NALAND During my first week of A- burdens of the Foreign focused exclusively on building 100 orientation many years Service career costs us support for the day’s foreign policy ago, a classmate pointed out dearly on Capitol Hill. For initiatives, without also making efforts that when I said “Foreign example, only after years of to build a long-term constituency for Service,” I differed from my effort was AFSA able to diplomacy. Contrast that with the colleagues by putting the stress convince Congress that For- Pentagon’s teams of people dedicated on the first word instead of on eign Service members, like to generating positive press coverage the second. While I quickly the uniformed military, of, and long-lasting admiration for, the changed my pronunciation, I still feel should not have to pay tens of hard work and sacrifices of soldiers, that the defining characteristic of our thousands of dollars in capital gains sailors, Marines and airmen. profession is that we spend most of tax on the sale of a primary residence Other candidates to help educate our careers abroad. that their overseas postings had not outsiders about the realities of Certainly, overseas stationing has allowed them to occupy for the Foreign Service life include almost also become a characteristic of U.S. required two of the last five years. everyone reading this column. Yes, it military service since 2003. But, Similarly, while it is intuitively is the job of AFSA’s officers and small absent an invasion from Mars, the obvious to us that we should not take staff to take the lead on this. But next administration will likely seek to a nearly 20-percent cut in base pay there is no way for a handful of people return our military to what it was when we transfer abroad, few in to call on all 535 members of Con- when I served in the Army in the early Congress consider the issue in the gress, get letters printed on the 1980s: a mostly U.S.-based garrison context of the many burdens borne by editorial pages of every local news- force. That will never be the case for the Foreign Service. Instead, many paper around the nation, and single- the Foreign Service, which has consis- are guided by obsolete images of handedly undertake the many other tently maintained two-thirds of its diplomats spending their careers in possible outreach efforts. positions overseas. comfortable European capitals. This is clearly an endeavor that I mention this because I am often Of course, AFSA works hard to could benefit from more helping disappointed at how little credit the educate lawmakers and the American hands. For example, active-duty Foreign Service gets from the people about the realities of Foreign members could brief visiting con- American people and their represen- Service life. Just review our annual gressional delegations on the overseas tatives in Congress for the fact that we report published each March in this pay inequity. Retired members can spend so much of our careers far from Journal to gain an appreciation of how write to their local newspapers to home, often in very difficult places. often AFSA is quoted in the media, highlight the need to adequately fund Over a long career, that adds up to a how many speaking engagements we diplomatic engagement. And all lot of missed births of nieces, deaths coordinate around the nation, and members should contact their law- of family members, weddings of old how many congressional offices we makers to raise these issues, there- friends, and holiday dinners at grand- visit. But more needs to be done. by transforming AFSA’s once-a-year ma’s house. One obvious candidate to under- Day on the Hill lobbying blitz into a This lack of appreciation of the take increased efforts to “tell our year-round campaign. story” is the State Department’s Bur- There is plenty of work to go John K. Naland is the president of the eau of Public Affairs. Yet, with rare around, so any and all help will be American Foreign Service Association. exceptions in recent decades, PA has appreciated. I NOVEMBER 2007/FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL 5 LETTERS Another Insulting Vietnam.
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