U.S diplomat quits over Biden's Gaza policy.

[AZ Desert Guy]

Originally Posted by WK91

I guess she finally found a war that she didn’t like?

She said she was in the State Department for 16 years.

Did she have a problem with Obama? Just looking at a snapshot, 2016, Obama’s administration green lit 26,000 bombing strikes that hit targets in Libya, Yemen, Somalia, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.

There were more people killed that year than what Israel has done in Gaza.

Why didn’t she quit in 2016?

I was in the State Dept myself for 18 years, a specialist in diplomatic security. This woman has ended up as an Arabic language spokesperson.

It looks like she served in Yemen while we backed Saudi Arabia in the proxy war against Iran. Having personally spent significant time in Yemen while in the foreign service myself, I can attest to the impact of the proxy war on people there, a lot of the impact not being reported in the western press widely, if at all.

It seems apparent to me she quit because she had to represent the current U.S. position, not because she actually had personal moral standards.

Originally Posted by WK91

We need to wake up, we’ve got many people like her in our government. People who hate America.

More in the CNN link:

"Since the news of her resignation, “so many colleagues then came up to me and said, ‘Oh, my God, we’ve been feeling the exact same way as you. We just have not been able to say it.""

I can also attest to the fact that the State Dept is full of progressives. Where I worked at the Diplomatic Security Service may be the one division that is more grounded in reality, (but DEI initiatives are still a really big deal in DSS), but the generalists (vice specialists) run at over 90% + to the left for sure.

I retired in 2022, but was able to witness first hand the "deep state resistance" to DJT from 2016-2020.

[Quick Enough]

Originally Posted by My2cents55

Hala Rharrit never expected that she would choose to leave her career as a US diplomat.

She had spent her “entire adult life” at the State Department having joined the foreign service in 2006, raising her hand for one of the toughest postings — Yemen — for her first assignment and going on to serve in places like Hong Kong, Qatar and South Africa. About a year and a half ago, after mostly behind-the-scenes roles, Rharrit became an Arab language spokesperson for the State Department.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/03/polit...aza/index.html

No surprise here but she will be one of thousands of Arab Americans who will turn their back on Biden and most likely not Vote for him. I see Biden losing Michigan over the Israel-Gaza war.

"She had spent her “entire adult life” at the State Department having joined the foreign service in 2006"

Gee, 18 whole years!


I think I have shoes that old.