01-15-2020, 12:52 PM
(01-15-2020, 12:33 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Usually considered an act of war.
But usually high ranking officials from a sovereign country don't personally go to other countries and arm and train terrorists and militias to murder other countries troops.
The protection kind of gets washed away at that point. If Mark Esper personally flew to Hong Kong with a shitload of explosives and RPGs and armed, taught, and led the protesters how to effectively use them to kill pro-Chinese (and they murdered a shitton of civilians in the process) then Mark Esper wouldn't have the same protections as a high ranking official from a sovereign country.
You're right, we don't send our personnel that are that high ranking to do this. It's usually just a small group of special operations folks or the SFAB units (though they would probably leave the training of less-than-savory folks to the special operations teams).
Now, say General Clarke, current commander of USSOCOM, was visiting Iraq, maybe in the Kurdish region to check on things. Iran, gathering intelligence on the general's whereabouts, decides to take him out using a drone (we'll pretend they have the capability for this) after landing at the airport and getting into a humvee to travel to the region. What would be your view on this?
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