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I dont wish to second guess decisions made but this is my biggest concern with military competency & how you protect an American embassy. The Marines for example are trained in small wars & skirmishes....small wars represent the normal & frequent operations of the Corps (& there is even a book written about it called the Small Wars Manual). A small war would be like treaty enforcement in Bosnia, anarchy in Somalia, tribal warfare in Rwanda.

I believe any US Embassy on foreign soil needs to be protected by bringing in light tanks as they are particularly valuable in assaulting towns & villages. Armored cars can also be employed to patrol streets but apparently this current administration prefers a quasi-diplomatic light duty style of protection like the UN peacekeeping nonsense (that is for the birds & people who have a death wish). Thats the screwup in my eyes....protect US Citizens with a military trained to address issues with combat not diplomatic BS.