You're fairly new around here. And, you appear to be, or have been, an employee of the State Department. You should realize just how deep the suspicions run among conservatives concerning the State Department. Ever since the Eisenhower administration, and perhaps even before back to the administrations of Roosevelt Minor (H.L. Mencken's name for FDR), the State Department has been regarded with grave suspicion as harboring left-wing socialites hostile to America. Certainly, the career State corps was hostile to Nixon and Ford, very hostile to Reagan, and has been very very hostile to George W Bush. The only republican president State has not been noticably hostile towards was George H.W. Bush. That's not to say there aren't many patriotic, even fairly conservative, employees of the State Department, but, the State bureaucracy, at its core, is liberal, the product of the elite northeastern universities and liberal arts colleges whose faculties have been hard left for the past 30 years. In my limited experience, state employees reminded me of the diplomats parodied by Keith Laumer in his "Retief" novels, socially and culturally more comfortable with the European upper classes and their views, than with ordinary Americans.
Anybody can come on any forum and say anything. You're new here, so we have every reason to be suspicious.
Beers' disenchantment led him to the Kerry camp.
He's not a man of integrity, since George W. Bush is the consummate man of integrity.
Your buddy is counting on his thirty pieces of silver.