President & CEO @GlobalTiesUS, Adj Prof @Georgetown, Author @OxUniPress of “Your Country, Our War: The Press & Diplomacy in Afghanistan”
Aug 15, 2021 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
The @USEmbassyKabul is being evacuated. We’ve been here before, but not at this scale & with this terrifying urgency. I first came to Kabul as an embassy aide in 2003. Want to reflect here on the place’s history and what it’s meant for thousands who've served there
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It was a preferred posting for U.S. diplomats until 1979 when Amb. Adolph Dubs was kidnapped then killed by pro-Soviet police. The Peace Corps & USAID were sent home, and the U.S. mission greatly diminished to just dozens of people.
