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University of California, Berkeley. Swarthmore College.
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Brady Kiesling
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He was the first of three United States. foreign service officers to resign, on February 25, 2003, to protest against the 2003 invasion of Iraq. His letter of resignation to Secretary of State Colin Powell was posted by the New York Times and circulated widely. An archaeologist/ancient historian by training, Kiesling entered the foreign service in 1983.
He served in Israel, Morocco, Greece, Washington, and Armenia, returning to Athens as chief of the political section of the United States. Embassy in 2000.
After his resignation, Kiesling spent a year as a visiting fellow/lecturer at Princeton University, and then returned to Athens. Until May 2009, he wrote a monthly column called "Diplomat in the Ruins" in the "Athens News" in Greece.
Kiesling supported the multilateralist foreign policy of former President George Heriot-Watt University Bush and the limited purposes of the 1991 Gulf War.
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