[shalom aleichem]

Look, we all know ambassadors are not experts at anything, let alone diplomats. Most are heavy campaign contributors who just wants a title (Joe Wilson?) and a soft vacation for a few years. Actor John Saxon (Chuy Medina the Scorpion King) amb of mexico, Shirley Temple Black amb of ?, Joe Kennedy Amb to Court of St James (UK). These people are usually hacks and/or meglomaniacs.

[Cheburashka]

Look, we all know ambassadors are not experts at anything, let alone diplomats. Most are heavy campaign contributors who just wants a title (Joe Wilson?) and a soft vacation for a few years.
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Your right about some ambassadorships - the glamour ones, United Kingdom, France, Canada, Australia, Japan. Or maybe you have heritage - A Jew to Israel, a Mexican to Mexico, a Pole to Poland. And so on.

No one makes campaign contributions to be appointed ambassador to Yemen. That posting goes to professional State Department people, because no one else wants to pay to go to a dusty, fly-infested dump, like that.

Of course being professional State Department isn't necessarily a recommendation....

[L`enn]

My neighbor up the street is the Ambassador to El Salvador. His claim to fame. Dad Bush's NY State campaign head in 1992. Thats probably why he got El Salvador rather than Ireland or Italy.