Jul 17 2009

Peter Van Buren’s depressing story

Peter Van Buren is a Foreign Service officer who has served for over twenty years as a consular officer overseas, mostly in Asian postings. He is at present serving in what he refers to as an out-of-area assignment for the State Department in Virginia. He has sent us this account of his story:

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Jun 7 2009

“We Were All Appalled By the Bush Years”

Thus a neighbor of retired State Department intelligence analyst Walter Kendall Myers and his wife, Gwendolyn, on the “frustration with U.S. policies” shared by all right-thinking people in the upper-Northwest D.C. bastion of liberalism in which they reside. Still, a little shiver of shock has run through members of this open-minded community as it turns [...]