Maybe Uncle Sam wishes to have more say regarding who occupies the house on the hill next year. And Gration said no, not me.

Will we ever hear a Kenyan ambassador resigning because he has different views with the sitting prezzy or he thinks the prezzy and his gang arent doing a good job??

He resigned over interference ie he refused to being a vessel for oppressing Kenyans the way Washington wanted.

He is independent and views being used a a voice of other selfish powers as discourteous.

Uncle sam want a someone without principles and one who can bend over to every **. but Scot Gration being a principled army general could hear none of this

A former State Department official with a long service record in the Africa bureau and a former ambassador told me that Gration’s tenure in Kenya was marked by constant friction with his superiors and a refusal to abide by State Department protocol and security measures. For instance, in a move that upset officials in the Department of Defense and White House, Gration complicated U.S. diplomacy to Somalia by demanding oversight of the Somalia Embassy’s actions. And because Gration insisted on using his personal computer to conduct State Department business, he set up an office in one of the few places in Embassy Nairobi authorized for an unsecured network—a bathroom. (When a staffer had a meeting with him, he or she would sit on the toilet.)

Attrition rates at the Nairobi Embassy were staggeringly high, said a former U.S. government official who worked on Sudan. Many of Gration's staff opted to be transferred to the highly dangerous Iraq and Afghanistan embassies rather than continue to work for him. "Some people had to go to some real shit holes to escape him," said the former official. Gration made capricious policy that hurt staff morale.