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What's the real reason we honor it?

You hear horror stories of it being abused, all the time. Some people have gotten away with murder. And supposedly, we can't do anything about it, except deport them.

In a world where we assasinate people, install dictators, support a country that kidapped a whistleblower out of Europe, this diplomatic thing is treated as untouchable.

EVEN in cases where the host country is openly hostile to us. Even in cases where we've had reporters and citizens imprisoned for decades.

I don't get it. What stops our "dirty" CIA or Feds or whoever from saying "**** the rules, you're going to CIA prison".

I mean, they don't play fair, why do we pretend to?

Originally posted by cdtm
What's the real reason we honor it?


The practice dates back probably thousands of years, it's so two or more countries, kingdoms, empires, what have you depending on the time period could maintain open relations and a channel of dialog even in times of conflict and/or outright war.

Sure, but shouldn't a diplomat being given a slap on the wrist (Or nothing at all) by their host country for a serious crime be an "all bets are off" thing?

If not an act of war, in and of itself.

I just wonder if the truth is, our government doesn't gjve a damn if a normal citizen is murdered.. They don't even do much for murder of citizens, by citizens in impoverished cities.

So they killed a john doe, who cares? The feds kill us all the time.

It's a very unfortunate thing when it comes to shit like that, eg I recall in the 80's or early 90's a diplomat drove drunk and murdered a pedestrian, but the only thing that happened was he was sent home and told never to come back. edit: I think it might have actually been the shitlord son of a diplomat

But diplomats are essential to keeping relations and countries need the certainty that their diplomats won't be used as leverage by the hosting country.

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