DougR- You're right, of course, that the vast majority of diplomats will circle the wagons around the Bush Administration's foreign policy imperative (which will sink deeper than the Titantic!). I'm pleased a few are willing to quit and publically announce their reasoning. Still, wouldn't it be nice if the rest of the diplomats, along with the bankers and the oil executives, went marching off to a war that they believe in, to paraphrase an old song by Malvina Reynolds:

The bankers and the diplomats are going in the army!

Peace,
Charley Noble