Anne Applebaum
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So the U.S.
government will have to pay compensation or literally one catastrophic mistake after the next.
You know, undermining our foreign broadcasting, you know, including, for example, in Iran at a time when speaking to the Iranian people might even be a useful thing.
And having achieved really nothing and having undermined and destroyed this agency, now the Trump administration is running around looking for something else for her to do.
And they had this great idea.
Let's send her to Jamaica.
But, you know, Jamaica is a parliamentary democracy, probably at this point more stable than America.
It's a friendly nation.
You know, it has lots of American tourists.
There's lots of, you know, consular activity between the United States and Jamaica.
Important Jamaican population in the United States.
We need someone serious.
But what did Jamaica do to deserve this kind of third rate, you know, fourth choice retread?
You know, somebody who failed at running for office and who then failed at running an important agency.
And now she gets sent there.
I mean, it's you know, I think Jamaica deserves better.
You're right.
That's a good news story.
That's a happy ending.