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Vanity: WHY ARE EMBASSIES CLOSED? FOR DECLARATIONS OF WAR, USUALLY!
a little bird | 8/6/2013 | RaceBannon

Posted on 08/06/2013 10:06:12 AM PDT by RaceBannon

I have to ask, think this through, what has been the reason for a series of embassies to ever close in our past history?

Are we so scared of a group that was once defeated that we cower in fear like this? Or does Obama have other plans?

Embassies, closed, this many, at the same time...only in time of war, folks, only in time of war


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; bho44; closing; embassy; soskerry; terrorthreat; usembassy; war
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To: kabar

I’m sure you are correct however I was escorted in by the Deputy Ambassador.
I saw 2 Marines at two checkpoints.
No one else there was armed.


21 posted on 08/06/2013 10:32:39 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: TheRhinelander

the boston bombers were sooooo effective...This is what we’ll see in the future.


22 posted on 08/06/2013 10:36:47 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Zathras
I spent 28 years as a Foreign Service Officer with over 20 years spent abroad. I supervised the RSOs and the MSG detachment.

The Marines at the front desk who buzzed you in beyond the hardline have 8 hour watches. We have local hire guards at the perimeter as well as host country provided protection, depending on the mission. Again, the Marines are not there to protect against an external attack. We depend on the host government to protect us. If they can't, we shouldn't be there. This was the cardinal mistake made in Benghazi. We should not have been there because the host government was unable to come to our aid.

23 posted on 08/06/2013 10:42:50 AM PDT by kabar
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To: RaceBannon

Well I hate to sound jaded but in this instance I believe its likely to be in response to the push back agains’t the NSA spying on all of us. Suddenly the terror threat is on red alert. Really?


24 posted on 08/06/2013 10:43:17 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: TheRhinelander
. This guy is an amateur.

One thing Obama is not is that he is not an amateur. Could an amateur have taken the greatest nation in the world down to a quivering mass of jelly financially, politically and socially in just 4 years? Hell no! He is a master and is surrounded by masters at what he wants to do. He broadcast it for the world to see and hear. "In a few days we are going to begin to fundamentally change America".

Nobody gave much thought to Hitler either until one day they woke up and found strings of boxcars waiting for them and Brown Shirted thugs armed to the teeth ready to help them board. History...History...History!!!

Do not underestimate ones enemy.

25 posted on 08/06/2013 10:48:13 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: RaceBannon

To give cover to this:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3051373/posts

Congress is in recess for 5 weeks, and this deflects attention away from what transpired in the link above. Simple Alinksy tactic...


26 posted on 08/06/2013 10:49:24 AM PDT by Frank Sheed (The injustice of trendiness is nearly dualistic in its isomorphism.)
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To: MeshugeMikey

I think Israel is using the ancient strategy ‘when your enemy is imploding, don’t intervene. Just stand back and watch.’


27 posted on 08/06/2013 10:50:50 AM PDT by txhurl ('The DOG ate my homework. That homework, too. ALL my homework. OK?' - POSHITUS)
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To: agere_contra

In Teheran in 1979, the “students” took over our embassy for the first time.. Two of my leaders came out in Jan 79. They looked around, weighed the pros and cons, and after the students were in our SCIF, they decided to pull us outin Feb 79. At that time, I was stationed in Rome, and we handled the evac of our dependents that transited there and at Naples. Some of the MSG from Rome were sent to Teheran to bolster the MSG Det in Tehran. In March of 1979, the situation had settled down and the embassy was a bare-bones operation, until they came back to stay in Nov 79. There are some missions where there is a reasonable expectation of rescue should the balloon go up. Teheran was not one of them. Most officers volunteer to go to some of them knowing that they can’t count on the cavalry showing up.if you can’t handle that possibility, then perhaps they should consider another line of work. My last post was Havana was considered a hardship post but we did have a reasonable expectation of the cavalry coming over the ridge.


28 posted on 08/06/2013 10:51:57 AM PDT by Ax
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To: agere_contra

In Teheran in 1979, the “students” took over our embassy for the first time.. Two of my leaders came out in Jan 79. They looked around, weighed the pros and cons, and after the students were in our SCIF, they decided to pull us outin Feb 79. At that time, I was stationed in Rome, and we handled the evac of our dependents that transited there and at Naples. Some of the MSG from Rome were sent to Teheran to bolster the MSG Det in Tehran. In March of 1979, the situation had settled down and the embassy was a bare-bones operation, until they came back to stay in Nov 79. There are some missions where there is a reasonable expectation of rescue should the balloon go up. Teheran was not one of them. Most officers volunteer to go to some of them knowing that they can’t count on the cavalry showing up.if you can’t handle that possibility, then perhaps they should consider another line of work. My last post was Havana was considered a hardship post but we did have a reasonable expectation of the cavalry coming over the ridge.


29 posted on 08/06/2013 10:51:57 AM PDT by Ax
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Regret double post.


30 posted on 08/06/2013 10:53:15 AM PDT by Ax
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To: RaceBannon

It’s ok....we’re just withdrawing, surrendering our sovereign turf. No big deal, move along, nothing to see here :)

Next the French will be laughing at us!!! I mean wow, what a display of weakness. I could understand a couple of embassies, but this many? We look scared sh*tless.

I’m sure this won’t embolden our enemies ;)


31 posted on 08/06/2013 10:53:47 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing consequences of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: RaceBannon
FWIW, we are bombing Yemen...
32 posted on 08/06/2013 10:55:29 AM PDT by null and void (Republicans create the tools of oppression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
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To: Don Corleone
Bag “O” Wipes is most definitely an amateurish clown. this blowhard's talent is to bluster, intimidate, whine, and occasionally cry. He is nothing but a case of being in the right place at the right time. Too bad for us!!
The U.S. has been on the road to ruin for some time and for many reasons. The only thing that will stop the decline is an about face turnaround. An AMERICAN SPRING.....with millions of CITIZENS( not consumers ) demanding an end to Washington's influence over our lives. Until the Citizen's of this once great nation share a vision of what we as a nation are to become we are doomed to the failings of a failed pathetic asswipe that occupies the White House and breathes our air.
33 posted on 08/06/2013 10:59:43 AM PDT by free from tyranny
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To: Bryanw92
ah the evening call to end the Ramadan Fast.......




34 posted on 08/06/2013 11:01:05 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey (Chicago Murder Updates..http://homicides.redeyechicago.com/)
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To: kabar

Relax, I believe you.
I’m just sharing what I saw. It just didn’t seem like enough security to me.


35 posted on 08/06/2013 11:18:45 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: RaceBannon

Come on y’all, the embassies are closed for this week to observe Obama’s birthday. Unfortunately, I am not being all that sarcastic.


36 posted on 08/06/2013 11:23:35 AM PDT by Cyclone59 (Where are we going, and what's with the handbasket?)
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To: Red Badger

Andy Jackson knew how to handle them.


37 posted on 08/06/2013 11:29:48 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Zathras

That you knew of.


38 posted on 08/06/2013 11:30:27 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: colorado tanker
he thinks we can have peace by refusing to fight.

But we are militarily involved in many countries in Africa and much of the ME.We are involved in little wars all over the world and preparing to get into even more.

39 posted on 08/06/2013 11:48:21 AM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/econohttp://www.fee.org/library/det)
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To: sport

Look at the closings with the understanding that the kenyan is a mohammedan and probably sunni. His sympathies are with the Moslem Brotherhood and the USA is the major target of hatred for the Moslem Brotherhood.


40 posted on 08/06/2013 11:52:03 AM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/econohttp://www.fee.org/library/det)
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