Blaming No One

Blaming No One
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This collection of published blog postings from a retired U.S. Foreign Service officer offers a perspective challenging facile suppositions, and notes historic moments of interest for the general reader.<br><br>This book is a series of reflections at the point of retirement from the U.S. Foreign Service. The postings, all colored by the author&#39;s experience, include short essays on the following themes: personal anecdote, people/profiles, the Foreign Policy seen by a mid-level official, human nature, government functions, and &quot;other&quot; (music, immigration, condominium rules on dog comportment…). The collection is marked by a tone of light humor and social/institutional criticism. The book should serve as an &quot;easy read,&quot; in short segments. At the same time, the full text, printed in chronological order of their publication dates, will give a perspective which questions and challenges facile suppositions, and notes historic moments of interest for the general reader.

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Dan Inc. Whitman. Blaming No One

Introduction

Reader’s Manual

Not the Gbagbo I Knew. April 6, 2011

With a Thousand Pictures, Nothing is Still Nothing. April 18, 2011

Of Apes and Arms: When Brains Prevail. April 27, 2011

The Bark is Worse. April 28, 2011

Is There a Fool in the House? April 28, 2011

My Moment with P.J. May 1, 2011

Isidorus Rex (1907-1989) May 7, 2011

Amazing Grace and... a Touch of Vodou. May 9, 2011

Pax Vobiscum Alex. May 18, 2011

Mission Possible in Munich. May 20, 2011

Why is This Man Smiling? June 4, 2011

If Music Be the Food. June 5, 2011

Coping with Opus. June 5, 2011

Totentanz at Orly. June 6, 2011

PD on the House. June 11, 2011

Many Would Rescue, Few Would Help. June 18, 2011

Herodotus of Arlington, Virginia. June 18, 2011

Looking into the Sun. June 20, 2011

Ten Out, Ninety to Go. June 22, 2011

The Case for Aid. June 26, 2011

The Importance. June 27, 2011

When Slava Met Yo-Yo. June 28, 2011

At Peace with Nukes? June 30, 2011

Looking Back and Fourth. July 5, 2011

Death Warmed Over in Yaoundé. July 7, 2011

A Summer Read for Our Time. July 8, 2011

Boom to Bust to Deductible: Hegel Knows Best. July 11, 2011

Smith-Mundt, R.I.P. July 13, 2011

Guinea on My Mind. July 22, 2011

Konaté’s Speech. July 22, 2011

Peek-a-Boo. August 3, 2011

In Boca di Lobo. August 4, 2011

Getting to YES. August 7, 2011

Let Them Show Us. August 12, 2011

Trapezoids. August 28, 2011

Again to the Breach. September 18, 2011

Another Chance for DRC. September 21, 2011

While They Slept. September 23, 2011

Sandy and Henri. September 24, 2011

Jacques Among the Living. September 27, 2011

At It Again. October 19, 2011

Sarith’s Story. October 31, 2011

My Southeast Asia. November 2, 2011

Blaming No One. November 13, 2011

Bad Boy Gbagbo. December 13, 2011

In a Name. December 15, 2011

An Ambassador Speaks. December 18, 2011

All Power to the 164th. December 20, 2011

Christmas in Lunel. December 31, 2011

Zelig at INF. January 19, 2012

“In Some Village, An Idiot Goes Missing...” January 23, 2012

Open Season on War Crimes. February 7, 2012

Stalin Without the Bullets. February 9, 2012

Lavrov Crunched. February 13, 2012

Shovels to Anguissa. February 16, 2012

Chekhov’s Garden. February 20, 2012

An Artist’s Finest Moment. February 22, 2012

Stolen Sandwiches. March 4, 2012

The Devil’s Due. March 8, 2012

UNESCO’s Bad. March 12, 2012

The Window That Went Around the World. March 14, 2012

Declinism in Decline. March 18, 2012

Lunch with Joe. March 19, 2012

Our Next Bubble. March 20, 2012

This Week in Africa, Good News and Bad. March 27, 2012

Cosmogony in a Coffee Tin. April 5, 2012

Inuits, Whales, Bach. April 24, 2012

Malamud and Me. April 27, 2012

The Sinologist in Each of Us. May 4, 2012

At the Feet of the Master. May 7, 2012

Sony Lab’ou Tansi (1947-1995) May 8, 2012

Lowering the Volume. May 9, 2012

“Please Go Away” May 15, 2012

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What If?

Imagine Michel de Montaigne under an 800-word limit. I don’t mean to compare my little pieces or myself to the one who started us on sharing personal reflections. Yet the thought keeps coming back. Montaigne would have (a) chafed against a limit so artificial, (b) tossed it aside disdainfully, or (c) taken to it comfortably. All we know for sure is that, in his case, rage or indignation would not have been factors.

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Crowley took the point in his gracious way. I never saw him again. I wish I could say, “...And the tone of State Department statements became clearer and more substantive following my comment,” but that would be self serving. I can’t prove it, but I think the voice of the State Department did become more clear during that period. Crowley should get lots of credit for this, I accept none. The Department actually said things and people did start to listen. It’s always an imperfect process, one step forward, three steps back, as during SecState Clinton’s first trip to Beijing, where she gave the Chinese government a pass on human rights. But this was a work in progress, and she got it right the second time, and should be noted for doing so.

I like my State Department colleagues a lot. They are smart, they try hard, and they care.

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