I hope the guys who designed the 104-acre US embassy compound in Baghdad remembered to include the helicopter landing pads on the top of every building.
The Saigon embassy evacuation was really touch-and-go due to the lack of good helipads. If we are going to spend $1 billion on this, they ought to be able to handle large transport helicopters, not just Hueys.
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I sure hope they do, too. It would stand to reason that they would include the helipads, but knowing the way the companies (halliburton) have been cutting corners to keep more dollars, I am not sure that they will.
What a waste of money. The Iraqis will throw the US out as soon as they get a working government and they keep the embassy because it will be the only area in Baghdad with utilities.
Well – a good escape plan and the means to implement it in a *blink* would seem so crucial to getting our guys out fast if “conditions on the ground” change for the worse.
But given the sheer blind-sided incompetency of the bAdmin and their Rosy views for a Victory (never a defeat nor an evacuation) – can anyone really hold their breath that this contingency has been planned for.
They are building a self-contained city within a city, except that the new city will actually have water, sewer and electrical service, while the main city is still in ruins.
If I was an Iraqi, I would be really ticked off about this.