Posted on 05/12/2023 4:54:09 PM PDT by dynachrome
A massive new US embassy complex in Lebanon is causing controversy for its sheer size and opulence in a country where nearly 80% of the population is under the poverty line.
Located some 13 kilometers (about 8 miles) from the center of Beirut, the US’ new embassy compound in Lebanon looks like a city of its own.
Sprawling over a 43-acre site, the complex in the Beirut suburb of Awkar is almost two-and-a-half times the size of the land the White House sits on and more than 21 soccer fields.
Many Lebanese on Twitter questioned why the US needs such a large embassy in their capital. Lebanon is smaller than Connecticut and has a population of just six million. Few American tourists go to the country as the State Department has placed it on the third highest travel advisory level, but it does have a sizeable population of Lebanese American residents.
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I don’t know, perhaps a new bio lab. Perhaps the FBI, CIA and the NSA needed additional storage for our personel information where congress can’t get their hands on it.
FULFILLING PROMISES QUICKLY AND EFFICIENTLY: After announcing the United States’ recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, President Trump quickly and efficiently opened the Embassy in Israel at a low cost to taxpayers.
President Trump opened the Embassy in Jerusalem in just six months, compared to the seven to ten years expected to build an entirely new and secure permanent embassy.
Initial modifications allowing the Embassy to open on May 14, 2018, cost just $400,000.
And clad in donated Jerusalem stone.
When your bio labs and hidden money stash are in jeopardy in Ukraine, you have to let the US taxpayers build you a new hidey hole.
This ‘embassy’ is just a cover to import human garbage - just like the Mexican border is now. Trust Jao Xiden at your own risk as every POS, terrorists, spies, criminals and basic scum so forth will claim asylum as they’ll be shipped over here at our expense to ruin what’s left of America.
Bingo! Just what I was thinking.
Who is the genius that said, “Yeah, let’s build this monstrosity at the bottom of this hill, with all the cover and concealment and of course, buildings on top of the hill. All offering great places to shoot from. Yeah, that’s the ticket.”
I think they built it for the Taliban.
I considered put the SARCASM indicator on the above, but that would be very risky given what DementiaJoe has been doing.
“I am old enough to remember when Lebanon was the most affluent (and most culturally liberal) no-oil country in the Middle East.”
I can attest to that. I was in Beirut in June of 1968 and was just amazed at how modern the city was. Full of life, tourism, business and shopping. I believe it was called the Paris of the Middle East. A memorable experience was in my hotel, verrry nice, and watching “I Dream Of Jeannie” with English subtitles. It was a stopover enroute to Ethiopia, where I spent the next six months.
Back to the embassy subject - yes, this is a very expensive and large target. Considering the size, I wonder if there is some special intelligence or military value above what is usually at an embassy?
To be eventually abandoned and taken over by a bunch of camel herders.
Nah, Lebanon is pretty peaceful these days.
This is Hunter's doing. Lebanon's prostitutes and nightlife are absolutely top-shelf. Best in the world.
We're building Hunter a pleasure palace.
See my post above this.
If it were national security, we'd be throwing money at Oman to build up the region just south of Hormuz, seeing how we're largely abandoning our interests in UAE and Bahrain.
Hunter wants a whorehouse. Can't really blame the location.
Our last one there got bombed (1993?)..
Most people do not understand what has gripped America. The infection we suffer is being overtaken by the Marxist muslim coalition, what I call obamanites.
This move is their response to the Islamic world for president Trump moving an embassy to Jerusalem.
All policies in America are for the death to America crowd
President
The sooner it is dealt with, the sooner liberty, rights and freedom, as intended, can be restored.
That is why America needs a Trumpian enema to restore Americas health.
Dr. Trump was one of the first to see and act on it.
It’s indicative of the American taxpayers money donated to the world of Islam. One day soon we’ll be fighting the people that the obamanites have empowered.
For the obamanites it’s death to America at every opportunity.
It's probably being built right next to the Hizbullah HQ or some big compound of theirs, in order to protect it from Israeli strikes, by orders of theObamaBiden regime.
We also know it will undermine Israel.
Sodomites, Pedophiles and Trannies/Tranny-worshippers and their sycophants are part of the Destroy America-coalition.
That’s because there’s so much spare money just lying around. Why not build a palatial embassy for a truck bomb to explode at.
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