Embassy Closings

You clearly didn’t watch Homeland.

Everyone in Homeland knows al-Queda and Hezbollah are the same group. Just as the USA and Israel stand shoulder-to-shoulder against them. Etc.

The gist is “if I call everything a conspiracy, I sound knowing and worldly.”

This thread seems extremely short on cited facts and overflowing with assertions pulled from asses. Maybe it’s better suited for IMHO?

They are? If everybody is leaving the building doesn’t that make them more vulnerable to attack caught out in the open in a vehicle? All a terrorist needs to do is phone in an attack and sit back and wait for the fish to drive out in a barrel.

Well at best that would be hope springing eternal. Realistically it gives the employees a day off. The question then becomes do they get extra money for a final meal because we know there isn’t going to be anybody coming to their defense if attacked when they return.

No, I but I do think it’s unconscionable not to send a fire truck. In this case, nothing was attacked and no embassy was directly threatened with attack.

Interesting, you think the people who died with no hope of rescue after 8 hours of attack felt as you do? Looks scandalous to me and I’m assuming the people who died didn’t care about who they voted for or what party they registered with. Again, there’s nothing stopping terrorists from attacking an embassy after it reopens except your fantasy that we would find the terrorists and kill them first.

A silly plan is giving vacation days in lieu of not defending the embassy from attack which can easily be made after the workers return.

Well, they don’t usually live in the embassy. If it’s closed, they stay home, elsewhere in town. Terrorists might know where to find them, but hunting them down and picking them off one at a time is just not as exciting a prospect.

Or they knew they would elevate the probability of a threat by bombing terrorists in Yemen.

AQ usually go for the low-hanging fruit.

Let’s try this- you have a henhouse and have learned that the weasels plan to attack it. Do you leave all the chickens in that one house or would you split them up and move them?

probably more fun than a suicide bombing. Of course, they miss that initial rush of adrenalin followed by their adrenal glands.

I’d let slip the dogs of war to guard them knowing the weasels will be back the following day and I have no chance of hunting them all down to eliminate the threat.

So, the answer is Al Q has not made a single attack on Israeli interests in its history.

Good.

We’re making progress here!

I mean, the “eternal hate” :trade_mark: is there but, no, no attack yet.

Yes, I know. However some posters were saying the closures didn’t make sense because the alleged attackers would just wait a week- as if the intervening time couldn’t be used for anything.

you can read their attacks of Israelis here.

If they lack success on the physical land of Israel it isn’t because they Israeli’s were giving out vacation days it’s because they’re successful at eliminating them from equation.

And it’s not like the various terrorist groups operate in a vacuum from each other. Like minds share assets toward a common goal.

I’d love to share the facts I have right here but I’m afraid it’s a matter of national security.

We eventually caught the Beltway Snipers. Should we have closed every business, school and government building? That was a known threat.

And when they do return, all they’ll find are a bunch of gorged dogs sleeping on scattered feathers.

That’s unmanageably vague and disruptive. Closing some embassies isn’t.

the people who died defending the embassy would disagree with your assessment.

One was an active threat, the other wasn’t. One had the assets of the US military to defend it, the other did not.

You’re saying that sending soldiers into 19 countries seems simpler than briefly closing some embassies?