Congressional support for adding more Marine security guards to US embassies worldwide is coming at an enormous price, with the State Department estimating $1.6 million per Marine.
Officials are explaining that the cost is due to the need to provide them with communications equipment as well as living quarters in the countries where they are stationed, though the department says they prefer the Marines just live in the embassy grounds.
Yet the explanation seems insufficient, with long-standing estimates of US ground troops in Afghanistan costing $1 million per, which is a lot, but involves combat troops in an actual warzone, as opposed to security guards living in an embassy.
The State Department also made reference to “command centers” and custom-designed housing as part of the overall costs, but declined to get into the specifics citing “security concerns.” Needless to say, the long-term goal of adding major amounts of security to embassies worldwide will rapidly become prohibitively expensive.
That tells me that USA embassies are targeted by terrorists all over the world.., so the us government needs to protect them by all means.., $1.6 million per marins…, whhhhho.., is it not cheaper if you close some of these monstrous embassies or down side som others.., or how about giving up the interventionism, the imperialism idea all to gather.., now that would be much cheaper…, wouldn't it.
If America tried a new world-friendly posture, then there might be fewer people planning to attack it or its institutions.
Has this thought ever occurred to it?
When you (the American government) believe that what you are doing is for the benefit of the world then they collectively won't be able to see the disconnect between their belief and reality. To do what you suggest would require either the elected leaders throwing off the chains of the Archons they willingly subjugate themselves to… or …the American people stand up and remove the Archons. I personally don't see either happening.
How the government works ….. use a big news story to come up with an excuse to steal more of your tax money.
Let me guess, there will be lots of contracts to politically connected contractors to set up the new system where the Marines guard the embassies that will replace the old system where Marines guard the embassies.
Good, the military is pricing themselves out of a job – it will be nice when the "patriotidiotics" start to realize the true cost of an empire – everything from NASCAR overflights to million dollar embassy guards.