but it wasn’t a consulate or an embassy. Thus is wasn’t US soil. Not that that fact changes things too much, just that I wonder how it does change things.
Really? Seems everything I've read states it was a "consulate". Not sure how much weight that has regarding the embassy in Tripoli, but the fact remains our American representative (everyone states as an Ambassador) and other service employee were murdered (not to mention the 2 former SEALS) without the WH even attempting a rescue. I think you have things wrong.
“but it wasn’t a consulate or an embassy. Thus is wasn’t US soil. Not that that fact changes things too much, just that I wonder how it does change things.”
I wonder the same thing-—does it change “things.”
In governmental inter-exchanges, and in some press I have seen, it is called a “mission.”
That designation is slipping through the cracks of the larger story, which in itself has so many moving parts. I can’t lay my hands on a source link at the moment, but for certain, it did not provide the amenities of a consulate.
See this post:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2950610/posts?page=31#31