Sounds like a fab idea. Too bad that it means that OTHER COUNTRIES MIGHT SUE US FOR OUR DRONE ATTACKS. Or worse.
Scenario -- Our ambassador allows a CIA agent to use the XXX embassy communications to inform our President that a terrorist who murdered 500 children in a market bomb attack will be alone at a house on a hill.
Our President sends in a drone to kill the terrorist, who was alone in the house on the hill.
The Prime Minister of XXX arrests our ambassador and all members of his staff, putting them into the local hell hole of a prison.
As an excuse, the Prime Minister of XXX says, "Your country does not allow other countries sovereign immunity, so we do not have to offer sovereign immunity to your country."
Sovereign immunity is complex. It is an international web of treaties that are both modern and ancient.
But basically, it comes down to: You take away OUR sovereign immunity, and we will take away YOUR sovereign immunity.
It means that you are risking the lives of EVERY person who represents the USA overseas.
There are better ways to teach Saudi Arabia that their country should not fund fundamentalist clerics.
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