DocArchive: The Billion Dollar Election: Part 2 - Ambassadors

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Fri Aug 08 10:15:00 EDT 2008

Prestigious job. Exotic location. Stately home, fine food and wine, and many other perks thrown in. Yours for only $200,000. The position a US ambassadorship. Around a third of all US ambassadors are not career diplomats; they're political appointees and almost all of them are major donors, wealthy businessmen. Is this really the way for the US to run its foreign policy?