Public Comment

What's next?

Romila Khanna
Friday July 22, 2016 - 07:57:00 AM

What are the steps we can take to ensure physical and emotional safety for our government officials here and elsewhere in the world? Thanks to technology and media whatever investigations go on here send a message to the whole world. Nothing is top secret any more. 

We are trying to understand the causes of the Benghazi attack which took the lives of our ambassador and other officials but I wonder if we are taking measures to make sure that such vulnerability is never repeated. 

The discussion I hear on TV focuses on placing blame. I don't hear discussion of ways of securing the safety of our officers in unstable countries at unstable times. It seems absurd to me that after two years of investigation by members of Congress we did not learn anything about how to avoid such danger for our diplomats in the future.  

In my view, the long-term method is to understand the situation of other cultures and to show great respect for the good people in each culture. Hatred will not improve the world but networks of good people can