{"id":19078,"date":"2017-01-08T21:28:16","date_gmt":"2017-01-08T21:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19078"},"modified":"2017-01-08T21:29:58","modified_gmt":"2017-01-08T21:29:58","slug":"now-lets-pray-diplomatic-crises-dont-erupt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19078","title":{"rendered":"Now, let’s pray diplomatic crises don’t erupt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Donald J. Trump’s unconventional approach to virtually everything presidential has taken yet another bizarre turn.<\/p>\n

The president-elect has issued an order for all U.S. diplomats — ambassadors, if you will — turn in their letters of resignation and vacate their posts on Inauguration Day.<\/p>\n

All of ’em<\/em>, I tell ya. They will have to leave diplomacy to the pros on their staffs; all political appointees have to go. Pronto! Immediately!<\/p>\n

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It’s way too early to tell what this means, other than the obvious, which is that Trump is breaking with decades of diplomatic tradition.<\/p>\n

But, hey — tradition, shmadition. <\/em>Who needs it when you’ve got such a successful businessman and dealmaker at the helm?<\/p>\n

My concern is this: We’d better not have a diplomatic crisis develop in, say, one of the nuclear-power nations where we now have embassies in the days immediately after Trump takes office as president.<\/p>\n

Think it can’t happen? It surely can.<\/p>\n

What’s more, the directive has put many of our senior diplomats in a world of major inconvenience. As the New York Times reports: “In Costa Rica, Ambassador Stafford Fitzgerald Haney is hunting for a house or an apartment as his family \u2014 which includes four school-age children and his wife, who has been battling breast cancer \u2014 struggles to figure out how to avoid a move back to the United States with five months left in the school year, according to the diplomats.”<\/p>\n

I know that’s of little direct concern to most Americans. My bigger worry is that in countries on the front lines of, say,\u00a0open warfare — places such as Jordan, Israel, Turkey — there well could be a crisis explode while we have no one at his or her post standing ready to speak for the United States of America.<\/p>\n

Do our allies around the world have reason to be a bit jittery at this news? I believe they do.<\/p>\n\n

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Donald J. Trump’s unconventional approach to virtually everything presidential has taken yet another bizarre turn. The president-elect has issued an order for all U.S. diplomats — ambassadors, if you will — turn in their letters of resignation and vacate their posts on Inauguration Day. All of ’em, I tell ya. They will have to leave … Continue reading Now, let’s pray diplomatic crises don’t erupt<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1424,6843,4983],"class_list":["post-19078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-u-s-diplomats","tag-u-s-state-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19078"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19081,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19078\/revisions\/19081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}