OTOH, if you piss off the locals enough you'll still have no other option but to hang on to a helicopter to get out. A la Saigon. Esconcing the diplomatic corp within a military installation kind of defeats the whole idea behind diplomacy, don't you think? Even if it does have more resemblance to the working practices of US foreign policy.
I'm looking for a list, but I don't seem to find it. By the way, when protesters attacked Scandinavian embassies because of the Danish Mohammed cartoons, the Chilean embassy in Damascus was burnt down because it shared the same building as those.
The US should think again about the real need of having embassies over there.
ReplyDeleteOr they should be all inside military compounds as impenetrable as possible, with a working escape plan (a la Saigon)
@Viva: I agree. Because even with 40 heavily armed U.S. Marines, no good could come out of it.
ReplyDeleteIs there a list in espanol of all of the Chilean embassies around the world?
OTOH, if you piss off the locals enough you'll still have no other option but to hang on to a helicopter to get out. A la Saigon.
ReplyDeleteEsconcing the diplomatic corp within a military installation kind of defeats the whole idea behind diplomacy, don't you think? Even if it does have more resemblance to the working practices of US foreign policy.
I'm looking for a list, but I don't seem to find it. By the way, when protesters attacked Scandinavian embassies because of the Danish Mohammed cartoons, the Chilean embassy in Damascus was burnt down because it shared the same building as those.
ReplyDeleteAnd here it is:
ReplyDeletehttp://chileabroad.gov.cl/embajadas/