re: #30 Dark_Falcon

Ma’am, will you still answer me? I haven’t been nasty but I do want to know why you think that we should just roll over and send Ms. Khobragade back to India, in light of how it would make us look.

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.