Five hundred tons of food stacked and now on the verge of rotting in an AbuDhabi warehouse will be incinerated, at a cost of nearly a million US dollars and who knows how many lives.
Bill's perspective captures well what his service, and the people who preceded and succeeded him, helped build--relationships whose intangible qualities such as trust and respect underpinned the willingness of others abroad to cooperate on matters large and small even when political differences or pratfalls intervened. Those relationship's are now in the process of being mindlessly destroyed. The tragedy is compounded by its stupidity.
This is not only a waste but a cruel act of a despot and a clear sign of nation too divided to care. Horrific, disgusting, deplorable. I no not what else to say. My sorrow runs deep.
Bill's perspective captures well what his service, and the people who preceded and succeeded him, helped build--relationships whose intangible qualities such as trust and respect underpinned the willingness of others abroad to cooperate on matters large and small even when political differences or pratfalls intervened. Those relationship's are now in the process of being mindlessly destroyed. The tragedy is compounded by its stupidity.
A heartfelt essay by a caring spy!
This is not only a waste but a cruel act of a despot and a clear sign of nation too divided to care. Horrific, disgusting, deplorable. I no not what else to say. My sorrow runs deep.