Based on your reading of the following, choose the best answer. The State Department often finds it hard to fill diplomatic posts in countries where diplomats and their families face physical dangers. Despite the fact that diplomats are offered hardship pay for difficult posts, many will not accept them or resign if they are forced to take a difficult post. How does the difficulty of filling foreign posts hurt U. S. foreign policy efforts?

Countries Americans don’t want to go are likely to retaliate and not send their own ambassadors to the U. S.

Policy officials in foreign countries feel resentful when a posting in their country is labeled as a "hardship."

Inexperienced diplomats may be recruited to work above their pay grade and will make errors in diplomacy.

When posts sometimes go unmanned, foreign countries where they are located lose respect for the U. S.