The Foreign Service Journal, January 2013

THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | JANUARY 2013 13 Everyone should heed Aaron B. O’Connell’s thoughtful warning about the consequences of our country’s ‘uncritical support of all things martial’ [“The Permanent Militarization of America,” op-ed, Nov. 5 New York Times ]. Of course we need an effective military for the defense of our country. But it is sad when we reach the point where scrutinizing the cost of that defense is viewed as somehow unpatriotic. We often hear that our foreign policy should be based on diplomacy, development and defense. Yet as Robert M. Gates, the former defense secretary, once observed, there are more people in American military bands than in the United States Foreign Service. And are the thrills that we and our children get out of the Blue Angels’ acrobatics really worth a yearly cost of almost $40 million? The extraordinary attention and resources being devoted to ‘all things martial’ should certainly concern us all, especially in these days of financial and economic stress. A letter from retired AmbassadorWalter L. Cutler, published in the Nov. 10 NewYork Times . the level of accountability in pursuing infringement cases, since reports will be digitally documented. As these examples demonstrate, the State Department is committed to the enforcement of intellectual prop- erty rights worldwide as a source of social integrity and economic prosper- ity. Toward that end, EB/IPE awarded $343,000 to 32 posts for IP-focused public diplomacy programs in FY 2012, and encourages posts to apply public diplomacy funds creatively to IPR issues within their countries. Posts may learn more about other initiatives and see the calendar of annual recommended IP engagement at the IPE intranet site at http://eb.e.state.sbu/sites/ tpp/IPE/default.aspx. Others may follow IPE’s public diplomacy campaigns on the “Embassies in Action” page of the State Department’s public site. — Steven Alan Honley, Editor Remembering Seth Tillman Many Foreign Service officers will have noted the passing of Seth P. Tillman, a key aide to the late Senator J. William Fulbright, D-Ark., on Nov. 16 at the age of 82. As the longtime chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. Fulbright is still widely remem- bered today for speaking out eloquently against growing American involvement in Southeast Asia during the 1960s. But as the Washington Post ’s Nov. 18 obituary of Tillman points out, very few people appreciate the extent to which Full- bright’s history-making stands depended on the private work of Mr. Tillman. Tillman was a Capitol Hill intern fresh from a doctoral program in foreign affairs when he went to work for Fulbright’s committee in 1961. He quickly became a principal aide in the Arkansas Demo- crat’s Senate office, as well as on the Foreign Relations Committee. ‘‘There was nobody more impor- tant to the formation of Bill Fulbright’s thought on foreign affairs’’ than Tillman, Fulbright biographer Randall Bennett Woods said in an interview. “He helped Fulbright understand how the Cold War was going off the rails.” Both men were internationalists, and staunchly anti- communist, but Tillman was quicker to change his mind about the expanding conflict in Vietnam. He was a chief collaborator, if not the ghostwriter, behind some of the senator’s most important addresses and publica- tions. These included a 1964 foreign policy speech, ‘‘Old Myths and New Realities,” and the lectures that became Fulbright’s 1966 book, The Arrogance of Power . Even so, Tillman was always careful to downplay his own role in Ful- bright’s political evolution. Tillman remained with the Senate subcommittee on the Middle East for several years after Fulbright’s defeat in the 1974 primary. He was later a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and did consulting work on Capitol Hill. In 1982, he joined Georgetown University, where he was a research professor of diplomacy until his retirement in 2004. Seth Tillman’s books include Anglo- American Relations at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 (1961), The United States in the Middle East (1982), and The Price of Empire (1989), which he co- authored with Fulbright. At the time of his death, he was at work on a biography of the former senator, who died in 1995. Tillman’s son, Andrew, plans to complete the volume. —Steven Alan Honley, Editor