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Pentagon Seeking Leeway Overseas
Washington Post - Free Registration Required ( FEB. 24)

The Pentagon is promoting a global counterterrorism plan that would allow Special Operations forces to enter a foreign country to conduct military operations without explicit concurrence from the U.S. ambassador there, administration officials familiar with the plan said. The plan would weaken the long standing "chief of mission" authority under which the U.S. ambassador, as the president's top representative in a foreign country, decides whether to grant entry to U.S. government personnel based on political and diplomatic considerations. The Special Operations missions envisioned in the plan would largely be secret, known to only a handful of officials from the foreign country, if any.

if the country they are entering lets them or wants them in there, then whats the problem?

talk about deja vou... does that mean I technically knew about this before you, Eutrusc'?

On topic, I don't see the problem, as long as they do have the permission of the country involved. Without it, then no.

Isn't there a limit for topics per person per day

Isn't there a limit for topics per person per day

No, but multiple instances of just copy-and-paste initial posts with no input from the OP are frowned upon.

Pentagon Seeking Leeway Overseas
Washington Post - Free Registration Required ( FEB. 24)

The Pentagon is promoting a global counterterrorism plan that would allow Special Operations forces to enter a foreign country to conduct military operations without explicit concurrence from the U.S. ambassador there, administration officials familiar with the plan said. The plan would weaken the long standing "chief of mission" authority under which the U.S. ambassador, as the president's top representative in a foreign country, decides whether to grant entry to U.S. government personnel based on political and diplomatic considerations. The Special Operations missions envisioned in the plan would largely be secret, known to only a handful of officials from the foreign country, if any.

The US ambassador does not have the legal authority to concur or not with the entry of military personel into a soveriegn state. Only the head of that state has such authority.
This may mess up the internal US command structure, but the US does not have the right to send its forces wherever it wants anyway. This type of attitude, that the problem is US ony, is what generates hatred around the world for the USA.
If they are genuinely after terrorists, then why would any head of state refuse them permission to enter? If however they have no evidence that the people they are after are terrorists, then perhaps sending special forces after them is a little too strong an action until such proof is established. Those states where this type of co-operation is unlikely to be forthcoming, are generally those where n ambassador is present anyway. So no change there.

Why can the Pentagon not see that this is the type of thing that causes real resentment in the world.