Once again we see signs of things to come from our future Prez. Donald Trump, In this case,
yanking ambassadors before they have replacements. Is it left or right? No. It
is just plain stupid. -SJ Otto
From the Daily
Kos:
It wouldn’t be a story about Donald Trump if it didn't
start with “in a break with precedent.” In this case, it’s a break with decades of precedent: Trump has told all
politically appointed U.S. ambassadors around the world that they must return home by
Inauguration Day, full stop, end of story, consequences be damned.
And the consequences are plenty. For starters, it means
that America won’t have diplomats in place in many countries by the time Trump
is sworn in. That's a situation that would endure for months, since the Senate
has to actually confirm each new ambassador, one by one. It's also liable to
frighten our allies and embolden our not-so-allies, though if anything, that’s
probably to Trump's liking.
But it’s for exactly these reasons that past presidents
have always made exceptions, even for political appointees from the other
party, to ensure continuity in our diplomatic relations, and also just not to
be raging dicks to people who’ve gone overseas to serve our country. Lots of
them, for instance, have families and young children abroad with them—children
who are in the middle of their school year. Without visas, these people can’t
remain in their host countries and are scrambling to either find a way to stay,
or to uproot their kids and place them in new schools back home.
It’s fucking obnoxious, is what it is:
In
Costa Rica, Ambassador Stafford Fitzgerald Haney is hunting for a house or an
apartment as his family—which includes four school-age children and his wife,
who has been battling breast cancer—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.
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