Still zero mention of who the hell was in charge of guarding the embassy. Please don't tell me we are stretched so thin that we can't afford a Marine detachment in each embassy, regardless of how unimportant it is in the grand scheme of things.
BELGRADE, Serbia (CNN) -- The U.S. Embassy in Belgrade is evacuating all nonessential personnel following Thursday's attack on the building by a crowd of protesters, a spokesman for the embassy told CNN Friday.
The U.S. ambassador, Cameron Munter, is staying, officials said.
The embassy was closed Friday, and a handful of riot police holding shields stood outside the building, its outer walls blackened from fires set the night before and some of its windows smashed.
It will remain closed until Monday or Tuesday so officials can assess the damage, said Bill Wanlund, the embassy's spokesman.
He said embassy staff were still in a heightened state of alert but there were no specific threats against any staff members.
The United States has warned the Serbian government that it has a responsibility to protect its assets.
[From U.S. warns Serbia it's responsible for safety of embassy - CNN.com]
Now, based on yesterday's reports, the embassy was set on fire. Where are the ambassador and his entourage working from today? A Starbucks?
I don't think CNN is treating this issue seriously. The concept of the embassy has not changed much over the past couple hundred years or so. Violating the integrity of a foreign embassy is no different than attacking the country itself.
If protesters here in Washington had jumped the fence of the Russian Federation embassy and set the sonofabitch on fire, we would have had an international incident, with the UN Security Council going into freak out mode to prepare to present sanctions to the U.S. for not providing acceptable security to that diplomatic mission. But when it is our embassy elsewhere then nobody gives a shit.
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