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Originally Posted by afchic

Where you got that from Dozer's post is completely beyond me. When you have experience working in the geo-political arena maybe you can make such outlandish comments. Maybe with your vast experience you would like to tell us what you would have done, had you been Ambassador for a day yesterday.

As someone who has 4 very good friends working in that embassy right now, I am pretty happy that a firefight didn't break out.

It is called diplomacy for a reason. We may not always like the outcome,but I can pretty much guarantee the Ambassador decided that a pisssing match with these folks yesterday was not in the best interest of his staff tactically speaking and the US strategically speaking. Today is another day and given the past 24 hours events I am sure there are some pretty high level discussions within our government on what the next move it. Geo-political relationships are games of chess not waterballon fights.

Okay.