Posted on 08/19/2012 1:18:33 PM PDT by Olog-hai
International law? That’s a joke. Just another means of shielding dictators and tyrants.
It’s real, and world-wide. My last post was Havana. The Marine Security Guards were responsible for the inner perimeter and the Cuban police were responsible for the outer perimeter. They were more concerned with Cubans trying to breach the gates to defect or claim political asylum than they were with our safety.
That seems to confirm it as a means of shielding dictators and tyrants.
True, but it also shields bona fide diplomats and staff. I was at the embassy in Teheran a few years before the roaches got in. I thought the place was impregnable, but when the outer perimeter guards are in cahoots with the attackers, the walls will fall. In the early 80s, the SAS stormed the Iranian (naturally) embassy in London to rescue hostages. I’ll give them a pass on that one.
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