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Originally Posted by justplugit
If I'm not mistaken, a country owns the Embassy property in the host country.
If the host country can't defend it we have the right to do it ourselves and is why we have defending troops in our Embassies.
We wouldn't have been acting with impunity in Libya, just defending the lives of our citizen personnel and the property we rightfully own.
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Read the Wiki.
An Embassy is not sovereign territory, but the diplomats are usually afforded special privileges. The attack on Benghazi wasn't even on the "Embassy" but a consulate office.
So if you were to station Marines at the Embassy they could defend it, but that doesn't mean they could fly in air support and bomb attackers.
-spence