Here’s a thought. Instead of temporarily closing embassies across the middle east, shut them down permanently. What is to gain from having Americans constantly under threat of terrorists attack?

Shut ’em down, all of them that are in any country that has terrorist ties, (which would be about every country in the middle east and North Africa), and save a few bucks. I’ll bet you could even open up the White House for tours with the money saved. That would certainly annoy the king, pesky kids running amok through the great ones current residence, but I digress. Why do we need people over there anyway. If we need to spy on someone, I am sure the CIA,FBI, whoever have got plenty of operatives in country that can handle that task.

Shut ’em down and never re-open them. The thought that we need politicians in these countries is asinine. If an American finds himself in a country without an embassy, then he should figure out a way to get out himself. If he is there under direction of the military, then the military can take the heat to get him out. Not only are politicians at risk, but as we found with Benghazi, military personnel tasked with their safety are in harms way for no other reason than to guard a piece of real estate in a state where the majority of the populace wants them dead or gone….so go!

Diplomatic facilities in Abu Dhabi, Amman, Cairo, Riyadh, Dhahran, Jeddah, Doha, Dubai, Kuwait, Manama, Muscat, Sanaa, Tripoli, Antananarivo, Bujumbura, Djibouti, Khartoum, Kigali, and Port Louis are instructed to close for normal operations through Saturday, Aug. 10.

King said he believes al-Qaeda “is in many ways stronger than it was before 9/11 because it has mutated and it’s spread in dramatically different locations.” The terror network’s Yemen branch, known as al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, “is the most deadly of all the al-Qaeda affiliates,” King said.

Zarate, the former Deputy National Security Adviser to President George W. Bush, concurred with King’s assessment.“The problem is you’ve had the rise of the al-Qaeda affiliates, groups in Yemen, North Africa, East Africa,” Zarate said. “Those groups have taken up the strategic and operational mantle for al-Qaeda and the group in Yemen has been the most dangerous because they want to hit the United States.”

Even though Obungler said that Al-Qaeda is on the run, I would guess that from the state of affairs in the areas listed above, not only are they not on the run, they have gotten stronger. With all of that hatred towards our country the only American that should be around is one running a drone from thousands of miles away.