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.
That makes sense.