John Brady Kiesling Quotes
Most of the time we do not know what we have learned till long after we learned it.
John Brady Kiesling, Political Counselor & Foreign Service Officer, U. S. State Department, Lecture, George Washington University, September 6, 2006
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In other words, don’t micromanage your agents.
John Brady Kiesling is a former U.S. diplomat and the author of Diplomacy Lessons: Realism for an Unloved Superpower (Potomac Books 2006) and the ToposText classics/archaeology mobile application. He was the first of three U.S. foreign service officers to resign, on February 25, 2003, to protest against the 2003 invasion of Iraq. His letter of resignation to Secretary of State Colin Powell was posted by The New York Times and circulated widely.