[timbuck2]

Not to be an alarmist, but the SS can not prevent this type of action. They are always going to be vastly outnumbered on foreign soil and there has to be a level of trust between security details. The guy could have started "dropping" the Chileans, but that would hav eled to an international "incident."

-T

[UWhusky]

It seems to me that the Chile security already DID create an international incident. The SS would be within their right to start dropping Chileans as needed to protect the pres.

My main concern in all of this is that the SS failed to do whatever was necessary to protect the pres. That disturbs me more than the acts of the chileans.

[ThePythonicCow]

The guy could have started "dropping" the Chileans,

Agreed - that would have been unwise. I wouldn't want to start a gun battle in the vicinity of the President, unless it was clear that the alternative was worse - as in right here and now lethal force already targeting the President.