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by PenhMan » Mon Jan 09, 2012 5:25 pm
An embassy staffer, presumably male most of the time, has needs to entertain/satisfy/relax himself. You go into a bar (not just hostess bars), you take a risk, as does everyone. If the staffer goes in for a chat, drink, laugh and maybe goes so far as to make a (discreet) booking, I don't have a problem with it.
It's the public extremes (of anyone) -- aggressive acts, drunknessness, fighting, swearing, threatening, and other acts of unbecoming behaviour -- that ought not to be tolerated in embassy staff. I think staff at many embassies know where the border line of discreditable public behaviour is. But I also think they hire people who are at low risk of embarrassing the country they represent.
In summary, the perpetrator will never get another federal job and that's a career changing disincentive in the extreme.
So "yes".
"We want our country to develop step by step. But that is such a long way off . . . as far away as the stars."
Jobless father in documentary Cambodia: Country of Scars.