Roger Morris and George Kenney are both Foreign Service Officers who resigned on principle. Morris left the State Department after the 1970 invasion of Cambodia. Kenney left in1991 over policy in the Balkans. Both writers are award-winning authors. Morris’s Between the Graves: America, Afghanistan and the Politics of Intervention, will be published in 2010. Kenney produces and hosts a podcast at ElectricPolitics.com and serves on the In These Times Board of Editors. A version of this article appeared on the Huffington Post.
Culture
A Diplomatic Casualty of War
Matthew Hoh’s warning to Obama goes unheeded in Afghanistan.
Roger Morris and George Kenney
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