Diplomatic courage.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: Tilting at Windmills

When Brady Kiesling, a veteran foreign service officer, was planning to resign in protest over the war in Iraq, his friend, former ambassador Robert Keeled; told him it wouldn't do any good, people would forget what he had done.

I happen to know Bob Keeley, and am sure that he hopes he was wrong. Brady Kiesling deserves to be remembered as a brave and thoughtful public servant, as do Ann Wright and John Brown, the other foreign service officers who joined him in...