The Foreign Service Journal, May 2007

20 F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L / M A Y 2 0 0 7 eorge Staples, like many in the Foreign Service these days, is striving to help the institution and its thousands of members deal with the dramatic changes that are reshaping what it means to live and work overseas. Speaking during a Jan. 8 interview in his State Department office with the Foreign Service Journal , the director general did not sugarcoat his message. “What I tell junior officers, young officers, when I go around and speak at F O C U S O N T H E F S A S A C A R E E R P LUS Ç A C HANGE ... ? M ANY IN THE F OREIGN S ERVICE MAY HOPE THAT THINGS WILL GET BACK TO NORMAL ONCE THE I RAQ W AR IS OVER . D ON ’ T COUNT ON IT . B Y S HAWN Z ELLER G John Lavin