Speaking Truth to the State Department

Here's some more straight talk the Manchurian Candidate won't care for.

I had my own run in with State Department weasels in 1996, when the commander of Operation Provide Comfort, Brigadier General Donald Lamontagne, heroically beat the tar out of the cowards at State who didn't want to support the effort to evacuate the Peshmurgha tribesmen from northern Iraq who'd been indispensable aids to our Special Forces who spent much of the 90s there enforcing the 1991 ceasefire.

Those with long memories might recall the furor over these folks coming to the U.S., first to Guam, then to the States.

Lamontagne, who remembered the way U.S. troops were forced to abandon our Montagnard allies (many of whom became the "boat people" as they sought to flee Ho Chi Minh's reeducation death camps), stood up to the chicken*&%^ bureaucrats at State. I'll never forget when State Dept reps showed up at the Turkish airbase in Diyarbakir to load these brave Kurds onto the planes carrying them to safety and freedom. A sorrier bunch of turdswallowers I have never seen, and a poorer representation of America to the world one could not find, than the State Department drudges forced to leave fancy dinners to, you know, ensure the U.S. military didn't screw up an airplane ride.

The Turks didn't much care for our plans, you see, and foreign service personnel are well known for considering themselve ambassadors from their host country to benighted America, not the other way around.

There is a good reason why Al Qaeda hasn't tried to blow up Foggy Bottom. One doesn't attack one's allies.