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WTF? A fort with comprehensive defense I could see. It's nothing but a target and not in a nation where we have much interest.
1 posted on 05/12/2023 4:54:09 PM PDT by dynachrome
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2 posted on 05/12/2023 4:54:35 PM PDT by dynachrome (“We cannot save Ukraine by dooming the US economy.” Rand Paul)
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Does Biden have another ‘cut and run’ deal with a stone age culture?

We leave and billions of dollars worth of weapons and technology are ‘donated’ to our enemies? Or is this a party down site for State Department perverts?

Maybe Biden’s granddaughter gets a few million?

Here’s what we know for sure - this latest insanity doesn’t help our country or our people.


8 posted on 05/12/2023 5:12:56 PM PDT by GOPJ (Send 10,000 illegals to Martha's Vineyard this time... and rent them rooms.)
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Can’t build a wall on our border but can built this?


10 posted on 05/12/2023 5:14:53 PM PDT by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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I wonder if Americans can go out and about in Beirut? I’m thinking they probably can, but I could be wrong.

My last gig in Iraq was at the US Embassy in Baghdad in 2013. I lived across the street in the DoD base at Union III. We walked or drove out of one fortified checkpoint and into another each morning for work.

The embassy was huge, but people couldn’t go off of it unless they were in an armored convoy or helicopter, so it’s set up like a town, (a town surrounded by big blast walls) with apartments, office buildings, dining halls, shopettes, movie theater, pool & tennis courts, gym, a couple of restaurants and a bar, etc.


12 posted on 05/12/2023 5:22:43 PM PDT by Allegra
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The size indicates that a lot of leftist deep state diplomats and intelligence officers will be there to totally eff things up in the region - more so than presently.


15 posted on 05/12/2023 5:25:42 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly." )
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Speaking of Lebanon- from Town hall.com:

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In “The Secret Backstory of How Obama Let Hezbollah Off the Hook,” Politico senior investigator Josh Meyer wrote about the investigation the government called “Project Cassandra” and Ali Fayad, a Hezbollah operative suspected of, among other things, of using profits from drug-dealing to finance terror operations and to move weapons to Syria. Meyer writes: “When Project Cassandra leaders sought approval for some significant investigations, prosecutions, arrests and financial sanctions, officials at the Justice and Treasury departments delayed, hindered or rejected their requests.

“The Justice Department declined requests by Project Cassandra and other authorities to file criminal charges against major players such as Hezbollah’s high-profile envoy to Iran, a Lebanese bank that allegedly laundered billions in alleged drug profits, and a central player in a U.S.-based cell of the Iranian paramilitary Quds force. And the State Department rejected requests to lure high-value targets to countries where they could be arrested. ...

“Lebanese arms dealer Ali Fayad, a suspected top Hezbollah operative whom agents believed reported to Russian President Vladimir Putin as a key supplier of weapons to Syria and Iraq, was arrested in Prague in the spring of 2014. But for the nearly two years Fayad was in custody, top Obama administration officials declined to apply serious pressure on the Czech government to extradite him to the United States, even as Putin was lobbying aggressively against it.... / snip...


16 posted on 05/12/2023 5:27:07 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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Lebanon. Probably one of the most gangster and corruption filled Middle East countries.

What does Biden think he’s doing? Preparing to destabiliza Leebanon further, the way Obama destabilized Syria??? Or does he really think the U.S. can compete with Iran and Hezbolla in Lebanon?? Not a chance in hell.


18 posted on 05/12/2023 5:31:40 PM PDT by Wuli
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I don’t know, perhaps a new bio lab. Perhaps the FBI, CIA and the NSA needed additional storage for our personel information where congress can’t get their hands on it.


21 posted on 05/12/2023 5:46:19 PM PDT by usurper (AI was born with a birth defect.)
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Recall how President Trump established a new Embassy in Jerusalem under budget and ahead of schedule.

FULFILLING PROMISES QUICKLY AND EFFICIENTLY: After announcing the United States’ recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, President Trump quickly and efficiently opened the Embassy in Israel at a low cost to taxpayers.

President Trump opened the Embassy in Jerusalem in just six months, compared to the seven to ten years expected to build an entirely new and secure permanent embassy.

Initial modifications allowing the Embassy to open on May 14, 2018, cost just $400,000.

And clad in donated Jerusalem stone.

22 posted on 05/12/2023 5:56:35 PM PDT by spokeshave (Proud Boys, Angry Dads and Grumpy Grandads.)
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When your bio labs and hidden money stash are in jeopardy in Ukraine, you have to let the US taxpayers build you a new hidey hole.


23 posted on 05/12/2023 6:05:06 PM PDT by Fireone (The only reason our elections are complicated is because the cheaters want it that way.)
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This ‘embassy’ is just a cover to import human garbage - just like the Mexican border is now. Trust Jao Xiden at your own risk as every POS, terrorists, spies, criminals and basic scum so forth will claim asylum as they’ll be shipped over here at our expense to ruin what’s left of America.


24 posted on 05/12/2023 6:22:48 PM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute. )
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I think they built it for the Taliban.
I considered put the SARCASM indicator on the above, but that would be very risky given what DementiaJoe has been doing.


27 posted on 05/12/2023 6:58:28 PM PDT by Honest Nigerian
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To be eventually abandoned and taken over by a bunch of camel herders.


29 posted on 05/12/2023 7:47:09 PM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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It's nothing but a target and not in a nation where we have much interest.

Nah, Lebanon is pretty peaceful these days.

This is Hunter's doing. Lebanon's prostitutes and nightlife are absolutely top-shelf. Best in the world.

We're building Hunter a pleasure palace.

30 posted on 05/12/2023 8:08:00 PM PDT by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President 2024. A real conservative.)
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That’s because there’s so much spare money just lying around. Why not build a palatial embassy for a truck bomb to explode at.


38 posted on 05/13/2023 2:23:51 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. )
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