US closes embassies

[dead0man]

I'm surprised that there hasn't been a thread about this already.

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I have no idea if you're serious or not so not really sure how to respond. 

What we need to do is either close the ones that are in constant danger or, in the nations we need embassies in up the defensive posture a great deal and blast any phuckers that start sh**t.  Sure, it would be expensive, which why we should just close most of them.

[dead0man]

The only thing I think we can take from this is that the administration may be too cautious.  I'm no fan of Obama, but I don't think this was done to show that the NSA intercepts work or to distract those that care about such things.  I just think it was him and his people being careful....perhaps too careful, I don't know.

The bad guys know we can listen, they just don't know how thorough that capability is (or isn't).  It's good, in a way, to make them use their most secure method of communication because it's usually slow and can only hold so much information...but we've even got that info before.  Intel is a very complicated field, rarely with solid, tangible results.  When it's done well and right and has good, solid results, we don't want that getting out for obvious reasons.  When it's done wrong and has horrible results, we don't want that getting out either also for obvious reasons....but those are the ones that almost always do get out.  It's hard to point to the victories, it's easy to be embarrassed by the mess ups.