re: #32 Dark_Falcon

My counter-argument is that this isn’t the first time we’ve seen this kind of bad behavior from diplomatic and consular officials.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn. His accuser wasn’t of ideal character either, but arresting and charging him was the right thing to do given the facts available at the time. In any event in the end he turned out to be a real creep, faces charged in his own country for aggravated pimping. Despite the short term anger over the incident our relationship with France wasn’t permanently damaged by the arrest and attempted prosecution.

Removing the blast barriers from the embassy was a really despicable and fucked up reaction by the Indian government. They’re basically saying that us accusing and arresting one consular official calls for lowering the safety of an entire embassy in response. If this is the hill they want to die on then let them, in the end they need us a lot more than we need them.