re: #31 Aunty Entity Dragon

Because that is the diplomatic norm for anything short of rape or murder. We do illegal things in other countries (29 CIA employees were tried in absentia in Italy for kidnapping and a lot of other stuff) and a case over underpaying an employee is no fucking cause to start unraveling the standards that protect our own people. Fer Christ’s sake, the diplomat in question makes about the same salary as my spouse who works at Walgreens…and we are accusing her of slave holding when she is paying her maid out of pocket 3 bucks an hour and she makes about 10.50 an hour??

WE have far, far more to lose here then India does…and the Chinese are laughing their asses off at us as we alienate one of their enemies.

My counter-argument is that this isn’t the first time we’ve seen this kind of bad behavior from diplomatic and consular officials. I really think we need to find out more about the conditions in which the maid was kept before we make a decision. I don’t want to send a message to the world that the US doesn”t take domestic slavery seriously, if that is what in fact this was.