Safety isn't an issue. The Vatican embassy is a secure as the Italian one -- possibly more so. You have to understand the subtleties of international diplomacy. This is a slap in the face to the Vatican and to Catholics the world over, and it is INTENDED to be nothing less than that. Quit averting your eyes and see hedonist, left-wing, evil for what it is.
I would agree with that --- if the Embassy to the Vatican was actually AT the Vatican.
If it was... I would even suggest that the U.S. Gov could offer a half-million or so a year (to the Swiss Army?) sponsoring expansion of the Swiss Guards (to have a squad present on Vatican grounds) dedicated to falling back to U.S. consulate protection (if some assault were to occur) would be money well spent.
I can see the "hedonist, left-wing evil" clear enough. We've been looking at it for years, in multitudinous permutation and form.
But we must be careful with our manner of speech, for it's not logical (if but on the surface, or after appearances) to be against consolidation and solidification of U.S. Embassy presence in foreign lands on the one hand, while still rightfully enough criticizing the Obama Admin and SHrillary for having left Benghazi in the lurch.
But that's what they WANT us to do, so as to better deflect away from their own past mistakes, and present, ongoing agendas.
If we fall into the traps of making easy-peasy talking points for THEM, like characterizing this as moving Embassy Vatican from the Vatican itself -- which did not occur.
Rachel Maddow would be all over this mistake among our own, like a vacuum cleaner on a shag rug, making all sorts of "conservatives are so stupid" noises, thus helping to ensure that once again, the true, underlying grim realities of the guaranteed to eventually arrive consequences, which flow from godless liberals and their pet political policy "experiments", will keep leading us ever closer to this "holocaust" another spoke of (while the holocaust of abortion upon demand keeps racking up the baby-body count, along the way).
I'm not "averting my eyes"... but rather, trying to give a heads up, in hopes of us being better able to possibly break the cycle.
We can't go blasting at the targets -- and keep missing. We need to hit 'em, and keep hammering.
We know the liberals are against the very idea of there being a one true, "creator" God. Those who are not completely aligned with that sort of thinking, are against what they like to call "organized religion" and have recent successes at stifling religious expression in the public sphere.
We won't be able to defeat that, by playing to their strengths (like giving the Maddow's easy talking points).
In the last few months it has become increasingly apparent to me that the Dems have done well in coaxing us (by provocation) into shooting ourselves in the foot.
There was no U.S. consulate AT the Vatican. Take that talking point off our table...and neither is the one dedicated to being to that entity being now in process of being "closed", but instead -- having it's physical location moved.