http://www.provocate.org/archives/243 Connecting Global & Local » Provoking Thought & Action Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:46:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 http://www.provocate.org/archives/243#comment-528 Provocate.org » Blog Archive » Provocate Recommends these Provocative Events for Fall 2007 Sun, 30 Sep 2007 19:37:46 +0000 http://www.provocate.org/archives/243#comment-528 [...] November 13 — The Changing Role of the U.S. Ambassador to Germany in a Post-9/11 World Dan Coats had a very successful and distinguished public career, serving in the US 1981-1989, and in the Senate 1989-1999. His career may have become even more interesting after he left the Senate. After narrowly missing being nominated as the Secretary of Defense in 2001 (the world would be a different place if he had been in the Pentagon the past six years rather than Donald Rumsfeld!), Coats took the post of US ambassador to Germany just days before 9/11. He thus had one of country’s the most sensitive diplomatic positions, trying to hold alliances together through Afghanistan and Iraq. check it out [...] […] November 13 — The Changing Role of the U.S. Ambassador to Germany in a Post-9/11 World Dan Coats had a very successful and distinguished public career, serving in the US 1981-1989, and in the Senate 1989-1999. His career may have become even more interesting after he left the Senate. After narrowly missing being nominated as the Secretary of Defense in 2001 (the world would be a different place if he had been in the Pentagon the past six years rather than Donald Rumsfeld!), Coats took the post of US ambassador to Germany just days before 9/11. He thus had one of country’s the most sensitive diplomatic positions, trying to hold alliances together through Afghanistan and Iraq. check it out […]

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