Hardened U.S. Embassies Symbolic of Old Fears

By Emily Cadman2009-03-13T17:47:00

Critics in the US say that the new monolithic US Embassy buildings around the world are alienating and an outdated response to old fears about terrorism, says the Washington Post.The US mission to the UN in Manhattan comes in for particulalry heavy criticism, with one pundit calling it a "bizarre ...

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