tRump is forcing ambassadors to quit by inauguration day

christiefan915 said:
Liar. Your reading comprehension sucks. You disgust me.

"With two weeks until Inauguration Day, President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team has issued an unusual order in the history of US foreign service:a blanket mandate that all politically appointed US ambassadors step down by Jan. 20, with no exceptions, as several US diplomats told The New York Times and Politico.

While being told to pack their bags at the end of an administration is par for the course, the lack of a grace period, or case-by-case exceptions, could prove worrisome, diplomacy experts say, if it left top US embassies without ambassadors for months.

“It is clearly understood among American ambassadors that when there's a change in the administration, they do not automatically stay on as ambassadors,” Alan Henrikson, a retired professor and former chair of the diplomatic studies program at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, tells The Christian Science Monitor. “But the abruptness of insisting that by Inauguration Day they leave their posts, especially in the present context when there's a result of the American election – there's widespread anxiety about dramatic changes in the American foreign policies and relationships. It just simply increases the concerns abroad.”

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Foreig...p-denies-grace-periods-to-Obama-s-ambassadors
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no one has forced anyone to remove their children from school......
 
Diplomats serve at the pleasure of the president. If I were one, I would plan to be moving every four years, if not sooner than that. Also, military servicemembers on active duty typically PCS every two years. My sister had a best friend back in grade school who moved to the Seattle area from Maryland for one year. Then her dad PCS'd again, and the two were torn apart. I doubt they've even thought about one another in more than ten years, but, I have this ridiculous long-term narrative memory, and recall these trivial events well.
 
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