On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Michael Dinowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No matter what level of their experience, if they were pre-Bush or what. > Spend years getting a good relationship with country X and person Y just to > lose all of that good experience. > > Or are we talking about some other form of ambassador job?
It was making a distinction between foreign service officers who hold ambassadorships (career civil servants with long standing relationships with certain countries) and political appointed ambassadors. The second category is not one where people typically spend years or transcend administratrations but rather are rewards for domestic political/financial favors. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:282088 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
