By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Several hundred US diplomats vented anger and frustration Wednesday about the State Department's decision to force foreign service officers to take jobs in Iraq with some comparing it to a "potential death sentence."
In a contentious hour-long "town hall meeting" called to explain the step, they peppered the official who signed the order with often hostile complaints about the largest diplomatic call-up since Vietnam. Announced last week, it will require some diplomats - under threat of dismissal - to serve at the embassy in Baghdad and in so-called Provincial Reconstruction Teams in outlying provinces.
Many expressed serious concern about the ethics of sending diplomats against their will to serve in a war zone, where the embassy staff is largely confined to the so-called "Green Zone," and the safety outside the area is uncertain while a review of the department's use of private security contractors to protect its staff is under way.
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