PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2015 TEACHING DIPLOMACY ACROSS THE DIVIDE 2014 AFSA TAX GUIDE FOREIGN January-February 2015 SERVICE Volume 92, No. 1 FOCUS ON TEACHING DIPLOMACY AFSA NEWS AFSA Hosts FS Authors Teaching Diplomacy As Process (Not Event): Book Market / 45 A Practitioner’s Song / 21 New Labor Management Sta / 46 State VP Voice: Marijuana Diplomacy is a collaborative process over time involving a and the FS / 47 number of players with di ering perspectives and strengths. FCS VP Voice: All Quiet on How does a practitioner convey that in a classroom? Set. Ready. Action? / 48 Retiree VP Voice: The FSPS BY BARBARA K. BODINE Annuity Supplement / 49 The Burden of the BlackBerry / 50 Diplomacy Education Unzipped / 27 Former AP State Correspondent at AFSA / 50 Who is a diplomat in today’s world? 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SILVERMAN y new year’s recommenda- was U.S. silence about the aforemen- reports, leading over a period of two tion to you is e Blood tioned genocide, committed with U.S.- weeks to increasing advocacy as the Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger supplied arms. outlines of genocide became clear. “e M and a Forgotten Genocide, e dissent cable, drafted by young silence from Washington was deafening,” by Princeton professor Gary Bass. It political ocer Scott Butcher during the Blood recalled later in an oral history tells the story of Archer Blood, a Foreign round-ups and shootings, calls our policy interview. Service ocer who as consul general in “morally bankrupt” and urges the U.S. e cable provoked Kissinger to call Dhaka in 1971 supported his subordi- government to use its considerable inu- Blood “this maniac in Dhaka” and have nates’ dissent cable, knowing that doing ence with the Pakistani government to him recalled. Henry Kissinger’s manage- so would derail his career, which it did. stop the genocide. Consul General Blood ment style as it emerges from the White Spoiler alert: Blood wins in the end, at could have merely authorized the cable House tapes is euphemistically known as least in my reading. to be sent. Instead, he added his endorse- “managing up.” He attered Nixon and e genocide described in the book is ment to the cable: “I support the right of supported Nixon’s worst instincts, while the Pakistani military’s systematic target- the above-named ocers to voice their suppressing policy options such as those ing of the Bengali Hindu minority in East dissent … I also subscribe to these views.” presented by Blood. Kissinger’s NSC Pakistan in the spring of 1971, during the He added pragmatically that the Bengali team appeared quiescent on the matter events that led to the creation of an inde- nationalists were pro-American and likely of Blood’s dissent. “One did not want pendent Bangladesh. e military went to prevail and establish an independent to be perceived as being too much on into villages, rounded up the Hindus, Bangladesh, so “one-sided support of the Blood’s side,” said one. and shot them en masse. About 300,000 likely loser” was foolish. He didn’t know In my reading, the result is an indel- Bengalis in total were murdered.