Why is US building world biggest embassy in Iraq?

Question

why not in Japan or Isreal?

Answer 1

As Hitler would have said "Festnung Irak".

Answer 2

If it is true it is a way to show the world Iraq was punk-ed and it also a way.For US. to have spies on their land,if that is the case I'm sure.THAT SITE MUST HAVE SOPHISTICATED EQUIPMENT.

Answer 3

A white elephant?

The embassy is one of the few major projects the administration has undertaken in Iraq that is on schedule and within budget. Still, not all has gone according to plan.

The 21-building complex on the Tigris River was envisioned three years ago partly as a headquarters for the democratic expansion in the Middle East that President George W. Bush identified as the organizing principle for foreign policy in his second term.

The complex quickly could become a white elephant if the U.S. scales back its presence and ambitions in Iraq. Although the U.S. probably will have forces in Iraq for years to come, it is not clear how much of the traditional work of diplomacy can proceed amid the violence and what the future holds for Iraq’s government.

“What you have is a situation in which they are building an embassy without really thinking about what its functions are,” said Edward Peck, a former top U.S. diplomat in Iraq.

“What kind of embassy is it when everybody lives inside and it’s blast-proof, and people are running around with helmets and crouching behind sandbags?”

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I read that they want 2/3 of the oil in Iraq.  It looks like they want to make sure they keep control of it.

Answer 4

I do not think you should be asking why US is doing this but ask yourself who else would do this.

Answer 5

Because they already have embassies in Japan and Israel.