John Brady Kiesling is a former U.S. diplomat and the author of Diplomacy Lessons: Realism for an Unloved Superpower (Potomac Books, 2006) and the ToposText classics/archaeology mobile application.
He supported the multilateralist foreign policy of former President George H. W. Bush and the limited purposes of the 1991 Gulf War.
[2] He served in Israel, Morocco, Greece, Washington, and Armenia, returning to Athens as chief of the political section of the U.S. Embassy in 2000.
His letter of resignation to Secretary of State Colin Powell was posted by The New York Times and circulated widely.
Finally, in late February, when Mr. Bush made clear he wouldn't be defied, even by the U.N. Security Council, Mr. Kiesling drafted his resignation letter and quit.