What is the point of billions spent on defense if American citizens can be held at the whims of strange potentates?
I like to think, as a foreign traveler, that if I got into some sort of legal trouble while abroad, I would be repatriated.
Whether I did it or not.
Italy is not Turkey a la midnight cowboy, and it was hardly a whim that they held her on.
And if you steer clear of the drug-fueled bunga-bunga sex parties while on foreign soil you will prob be ok.