Josh Paul, who spent a decade in State's bureau overseeing arms sales, exclusively spoke with HuffPost after quitting over the U.S. approach to the Israel-Palestine conflict.
I have little faith in the amount of movement you can actually cause from inside the system personally but Im not going to pretend my way is the only way, it’s good that people try. It sounds like this is someone on whom the ethics weighed heavily from the very beginning and their resignation when it became too much supports that. I could be very wrong on my analysis, but someone who’s got the moral fortitude to leave at all like this is probably among the better people in those positions for what that’s worth. I guess what I’m trying to express is that I feel like most people in positions like theirs are not as ethically inclined as they were, at least from the views I get on the outside.
I have little faith in the amount of movement you can actually cause from inside the system personally but Im not going to pretend my way is the only way, it’s good that people try. It sounds like this is someone on whom the ethics weighed heavily from the very beginning and their resignation when it became too much supports that. I could be very wrong on my analysis, but someone who’s got the moral fortitude to leave at all like this is probably among the better people in those positions for what that’s worth. I guess what I’m trying to express is that I feel like most people in positions like theirs are not as ethically inclined as they were, at least from the views I get on the outside.
Ironically, that “good” person is no longer in such a position.
Thus, one could question once again whether “good” people can be in such a position.
One could ask what positions do exist for “good” people? Is there any left that lets them have any say?