>Well, that's my point. Taking the embassy, and occupying the embassy, are similar. The Iranians occupied our embassy under both Carter
and Reagan.
>You say that it's sovereign territory, which I agree with. Was it not also our sovereign territory under Reagan? If not, when did it stop becoming our territory?
By the time Reagan took office, the embassy had ceased being one, for all intents and purposes. I don't know that there is an exact legal definition for when a building ceases to be sovereign territory, but an
attack on a functioning embassy may clearly be called an act of war.
The attack occured during - and should have been dealt with by - the Carter administration. To say that occupation continued under Reagan is splitting hairs; one could charge that, since the building is still under occupation, that all presidents after Carter let the situation continue.
Dan LeClair
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