The Foreign Service Journal, June 2009

J O U R N A L OREIGN ERVICE S F P RESIDENT ’ S V IEWS / 5 Constructive Dissent By John K. Naland S PEAKING O UT / 13 EERs: The Forgotten Front in the War for Talent By Jonathan Fritz R EFLECTIONS / 92 Afghanistan Revisited By Bruce Laingen L ETTERS / 6 C YBERNOTES / 9 M ARKETPLACE / 11 B OOKS / 76 I N M EMORY / 78 I NDEX TO A DVERTISERS / 90 Cover and inside illustrations by Pietari Posti F O C U S O N F S R e f l e c t i o n s L EST W E F ORGET / 17 On the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, it is more important than ever to honor those who died there in the name of democracy. By Joanne Grady Huskey M Y B LACK B ELT J OURNEY / 22 In Taekwondo, one practitioner learns, it’s not the destination that matters but the journey. By Scott B. Ticknor R USS AND I / 27 A carpool chat leads to the addition of several long-deceased diplomats’ names to the AFSA Memorial Plaques. By Jason Vorderstrasse C OUNTERTERRORISM : S OME L ESSONS TO C ONSIDER / 32 A retired diplomat sees a disturbing pattern of inconsistency, dishonesty and deceit in the U.S. response to acts of terrorism. By Alan Berlind R EPRIEVE ON M ANILA B AY / 38 They say a cat has nine lives. But how many reprieves are we humans granted before mortality’s inexorable triumph? By John J. St. John A F S A N E W S F OREIGN A FFAIRS D AY 2009 / 43 B RIEFS , A GGELER / 44 VP V OICE – S TATE : A B ITTERSWEET F AREWELL / 45 VP V OICE – R ETIREE : AFSA H AS Y OUR B ACK / 46 VP V OICE – FCS: O UR F RIENDS ON THE H ILL / 47 F AMILY M EMBER M ATTERS : A TCK L ETTER / 48 I AN H OUSTON N AMED AFSA E XECUTIVE D IRECTOR / 49 AFSA B UILDING R EOPENS / 49 C LASSIFIEDS / 51 J U N E 2 0 0 9 / F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L 3 C ONTENTS June 2009 Volume 86, No. 6