and is not shy to talk about it and state her reasons publicly. Good for her!
From the Letters and Comments section of today's Barbados Nation News.
US really part of the problemPublished on: 10/21/07.
AS AN AMERICAN DIPLOMAT who served in Barbados from 1994 to 1998, and as a current resident of Barbados, I read with interest editorials and columns in your newspaper critical of current United States foreign policy.
I would like to share with your readers my own views.
In 2006, with deep sadness, I resigned from the State Department, prematurely ending a mostly stimulating 24-year Foreign Service career. I took this action because I believe that, under the current administration, the State Department is not effectively representing the values and priorities that have been the foundation of our security and the source of American strength.
The dissonance between the administration's actions and policies implemented – cherry-picked pre-war intelligence, pre-emptive war, secret foreign CIA detention centers and torture, warrant-less domestic spying – and my own values, common sense, and experience, had simply become too great.
One need not be an expert to see the damage that the conduct of the faultily conceived, inexpertly understood and ineptly executed Iraq war, as well as the politicisation of the "war on terrorism", have done to our standing in the world and to the ideals that historically have been the United States' most powerful attributes.
http://www.nationnews.com/editorial/298202769237120.php 
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