The Tattered Coat has another fairly comprehensive rebuttal posted, and long time traveler Hilzoy over at Obsidian Wings has an almost entertaining description of exactly how much of a nepotistic "boondoggle" it is to be sent to Niger, as Republicans are claiming.
Quoting Hilzoy:
Just think: if you were married to a CIA agent, you too could enjoy this sort of life: jetting from one desperately impoverished country to another, talking to scintillating government ministers about uranium ore, hiding from dust storms that deposit grit in orifices you didn't know you had: that's the good life. That's what I call champagne wishes and caviar dreams.
He even includes pictures.
Trackback URL for this post:
http://www.resonant.org/trackback/921
