Diplomatic Rules of Thumb

To be referred to by the President, Secretary of State, and Secretary of Defense, as needed:

1. Don't call people names in secret written correspondence, and then give every infantryman access to that correspondence.
2. Don't blow up a hotel full of journalists, then say you didn't do it, then say you did in secret correspondence, and then give every infantryman access to that correspondence.
3. Don't spy on people you've agreed not to spy on, then write about it in secret written correspondence, and then give every infantryman access to that correspondence.
4. Don't be stoopid. 
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