Skip to comments.
Assad Loyalists Storm US Embassy
Arutz Sheva ^
| 11/7/11
| Gavriel Queenan
Posted on 07/11/2011 12:31:46 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
click here to read article
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-40, 41-55 next last
Well? The French have just out-macho'd the US, and are thus further away from war than the US. And this is an act of war right out of a textbook. What now?
To: Eleutheria5
Don't worry - Obama is on the phone RIGHT NOW to get advice from Jimmy Carter on how to handle this!
By the way, does this answer any questions about why Israel doesn't want to surrender the Golan Heights?
2
posted on
07/11/2011 12:38:59 PM PDT
by
In Maryland
("The Federal Government is no longer one of limited and enumerated powers." -Justice Clarence Thomas)
To: Eleutheria5
OUR embassy is OUR turf (even if it is only the size of a postage stamp) in that country!!
Same with our embassy anywhre else or THEIR embassy HERE! You’d be nailed to the nearest fence with rail road spikes if you even TOUCHED THEIR embassy!!!
Our embassy is our sovereign turf and we have a right and DUTY to defend it. The French did the right thing, too bad Americans don’t know how this stuff works!
Our dimplomatic service, I see, is dummied-down right along with the rest of our society. NOW everybody is at ‘zero’ efficiency!!! ...and at ‘zero’ intelligence!
3
posted on
07/11/2011 12:40:41 PM PDT
by
SMARTY
("Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils. " Arthur Wellesley)
To: Eleutheria5
Another hostage crisis coming??
"A television station that is heavily influenced by Syrian authorities encouraged this violent demonstration," the State Department said in a statement
Totally owned and controlled by the regime no doubt.... "heavily influenced" is weasel words
4
posted on
07/11/2011 12:41:41 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
To: Eleutheria5
They misspelled ‘asshat’ in the headline...
5
posted on
07/11/2011 12:42:21 PM PDT
by
WayneS
("I hope you know this will go down on your PERMANENT record...")
Comment #6 Removed by Moderator
To: Eleutheria5
Some observers, however, question why US embassy security did not - as French security officers did - use live ammunition to protect the embassy themselves. Because they didn't breach the sanctuary. Had they done that, they would've been met by a Marine Security Guard detachment issuing out buckshot via Remington 870P shotguns in large quantities.
7
posted on
07/11/2011 12:42:28 PM PDT
by
Salvavida
(The restoration of the U.S.A. starts with filling the pews at every Bible-believing church.)
Comment #8 Removed by Moderator
To: Eleutheria5
Did anybody else flash-back to Nov 4, 1979, when they saw that headline??
9
posted on
07/11/2011 12:42:39 PM PDT
by
Uncle Ike
(Rope is cheap, and there are lots of trees...)
To: SMARTY
The security of the outside of the chancery is the responsibility of the local guards. The Marines are responsible for the inside. It wasn’t breeched, so they didn’t get shot.
10
posted on
07/11/2011 12:45:00 PM PDT
by
Salvavida
(The restoration of the U.S.A. starts with filling the pews at every Bible-believing church.)
To: In Maryland
Correct me if I am wrong, but the Democrats told us in 2007 that Assad was a reformer. Nancy Peloopsi had to go to Damascus to mend relations with Assad the peace maker before war mongering BUSH attacked them...
11
posted on
07/11/2011 12:49:20 PM PDT
by
11th Commandment
(http://www.thirty-thousand.org/)
To: Salvavida
It wasnt breeched, so they didnt get shot.
THAT day is near.
I sure hope O handles it better than he has handled anything else to date. Because ... getting your own embassy overrun is real ugly business!
12
posted on
07/11/2011 12:53:27 PM PDT
by
SMARTY
("Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils. " Arthur Wellesley)
To: In Maryland; All
"Don't worry - Obama is on the phone RIGHT NOW to get advice from Jimmy Carter on how to handle this! "
13
posted on
07/11/2011 12:53:36 PM PDT
by
musicman
(Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
To: Salvavida
Such standing orders are probably being changed from on high right now.
To: Eleutheria5
Yet again, Hillary Clinton demonstrates that she is the worst secretary of state ever. This is just another bungled oversight by Hillary over the state department, which either should never have allowed the US Ambassador to go travelling around to incite anti-government opinions, or beefed up embassy security and issued shoot to kill orders to defend the compound.
And Obama for having absolutely no clue in his job of Present and not taking the slightest oversight over the State Department.
15
posted on
07/11/2011 12:57:45 PM PDT
by
kingu
(Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
To: In Maryland
Questions? What questions? I have one rhetorical question: Why are they even discussing the Golan Heights.
I do believe Assad is getting desperate. Does he really think the people will rally around him if he only gets into a shooting war with the US and France?
16
posted on
07/11/2011 1:00:50 PM PDT
by
Eleutheria5
(End the occupation. Annex today)
To: ctdonath2; SMARTY
Not likely. This has been a policy for decades. The Marine detachments simply are not large enough to defend entire compounds. Plus, the inside of a chancery gives the tactical advantage to the Marines.
It’s a good policy overall. But if the host government isn’t going to own up their responsibility to protect the outside, it’s time for an evacuation.
17
posted on
07/11/2011 1:01:54 PM PDT
by
Salvavida
(The restoration of the U.S.A. starts with filling the pews at every Bible-believing church.)
To: Salvavida
Our ‘diplomats’ should have been out of there by now, anyway!
18
posted on
07/11/2011 1:03:34 PM PDT
by
SMARTY
("Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils. " Arthur Wellesley)
To: Salvavida
You miss my point.
New orders from on high would be “don’t resist”.
To: SMARTY
We’ll be lucky if he handles it as “well” as Carter did.
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-40, 41-55 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson