Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts, and politicians violently denounce the politicians of other countries.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble.
As a journalist, I try to avoid talking to American diplomats, because I am stunned again and again by just how little grasp they have of what people are really feeling in a country. Especially CIA guys. Maybe they're just really good at playing stupid, but I don't think so.
Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
Why are diplomatic cables secret at all?
How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.
People also don't care about the daily comings and goings of diplomats and yet we must report it.
Frankly, most governments are used to lying to each other - to a degree that most people would find shocking. Part of diplomacy is the art of strategic lying.
I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.
Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.