Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. - Cyril Connolly
Wednesday, May 03, 2006
Mr. Abassador
Assuming everything goes well with his Senate Confirmation hearings in Washington tomorrow, I will be dining with the newly minted Ambassador to Algeria tomorrow evening.
Robert flew back from Baghdad yesterday, confirmation hearings tomorrow, and right back to Baghdad on Friday. I'm thrilled and honored that he's stopping long enough to have dinner with me. I'm sure he'll be more than a little exhausted after all the travel and stress of being under the spotlight like that. He suspects that the Committee will use the opportunity to grill him about Iraq instead of asking qualifying questions about Algeria.
After trying in vain to knit together a democracy in Iraq for the last two years, he is finally being rewarded with a much deserved Ambassadorship position.
I'm half tempted to take tomorrow off and attend the hearings (I mean, how often do you know anyone who gets to testify in a Senate Confirmation process??), but I'll get the scoop at dinner. I am SO proud of him!
I'm definitely looking forward to a trip to North Africa in the next year or so!
If I were you and had the time, I would go to the meetings. This is an opportunity!