One reason Americans were denied the cleansing vision of the last U.S. diplomats fleeing Baghdad by helicopter is because, haha, we sort of left the diplomats there -- all16,000State Department personnel and military contractors and poorly disguised CIA torture spies and oil company representatives. But now, with "hard times" or whatever the current phrase to explain why the superbillionaires have whatever they want and even the American Empire must scale back, due to lack of money, Washington is planning to cut the staff and contractors in Iraq by
Diplomacy is the art to telling someone to go to Iraq in such a way they look forward to the trip.