Category: Reader Comments

Reader Comment on: “Public Diplomacy in Uniform: The Role of the U.S. Department of Defense in Supporting Modern Day Public Diplomacy” www.unc.edu/depts/diplomat/item/2011/0104/comm/greensapn_pduniform.html by James Rockwell, Financial Management Specialist, Global Financial Services Center, Department of State This (rather biased) article shoots … Read more

Reader Comment on: “Women in Diplomacy: An Assessment of British Female Ambassadors in Overcoming Gender Hierarchy, 1990-2010” www.unc.edu/depts/diplomat/item/2011/0104/comm/rahman_women.html By Margot Carrington, Una Chapman Cox Sabbatical Fellow/ International Women’s Forum Leadership Foundation Fellow at U. S. Department of State The article … Read more

Brian Kennedy’s Paranoia by Amb. (ret.) William A. Rugh Brian T. Kennedy of the Claremont Institute gave a speech on January 7 that was published in Hillsdale College’s Imprimis under the title “It’s Never Just the Economy Stupid”. His speech … Read more

Comment on Ambassador Holbrook and the Belgrade Cultural and Information Center
By Dr. Walter Roberts

from Yale Richmond

Reader Comment By J. Edgar Williams Were weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) smuggled out of Iraq into Syria and Lebanon just before the US invasion in 2003? This is a subject I find interesting. Our forces found only a few small stashes … Read more

Reader Comment on “A Nuclear Weapons Free NATO” www.unc.edu/depts/diplomat/item/2010/0406/comm/byrneetal_natonuke.html From: Benjamin Landis The article “A Nuclear Weapons Free NATO” is a well-reasoned and cogent argument for the elimination of NATO’s current tactical nuclear weapons capability.  Our political and military leaders … Read more

Reader Comment on Common Strategic Interests: Balancing Support for Israel Against Other American Interests www.unc.edu/depts/diplomat/item/2010/0406/comm/benmeir_common.html From:  Benjamin Landis Professor Ben-Meir’s article is on one level a very perceptive summary of the national and ethnic attitudes impinging on a possible settlement … Read more

Reader Comment on “Responding to the China Challenge” by Michael Hunt www.unc.edu/depts/diplomat/item/2010/0406/comm/hunt_chinachallenge.html By Steven I. Levine, The University of Montana In “Responding to China’s Challenge,” Michael Hunt castigates U.S. policymakers for pursuing a “fundamentally contradictory” policy toward China that wobbles … Read more

Reader Comments on “The Future of Public Diplomacy” http://www.unc.edu/depts/diplomat/item/2010/0103/an_mchalefuture.html From:  Ambassador (ret.) William A. Rugh, Ph. D. Board member, The Public Diplomacy Council I have just read over Judith McHale’s new plan, and I am disappointed. It’s underwhelming. After all … Read more

Reader Comment on “A New Generation State Department” http://www.unc.edu/depts/diplomat/item/2010/0103/oped/op_marks.html  From: Yale Richmond, FSO Retired Ed Marks’s proposal for reorganizing our international affairs looks good on paper, but how would one person, a Secretary of State or a Secretary of International … Read more

From: Yale Richmond

From: Cara W.F. Hyson

  Comment on: “The Voice of America: Origins and Recollections” www.unc.edu/depts/diplomat/item/2009/1012/fsl/ roberts_voice.html From: Edward Alexander VOA and Armenia The origins of the Voice of America, from its inception in 1942, were covered recently in these pages in an excellent article … Read more

from Jesse Taylor Clear

From James L. Abrahamson

From: Benjamin L. Landis

from Thomas K. Pickering, Henry E. Catto, David I. Hitchcock, Stanley M. Silverman, Fred A. Coffey Jr.

from Ed Marks

from Yale Richmond