Let us not boil all diplomats in the cauldron of public scorn. It is an ancient, valuable and honorable profession. The resistence we sense emanates from a few Luddites, for they, along with their Early Adaptor comrades, are the ones who have the most to win or lose in the knowledge marketplace. I am afraid that what we are seeing is a new age of industrial espionage on a grand scale. It is easier to copy than to innovate, and easier to steal than to carry on reasoned dialogue.