A.M.
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The Pentagon is 600 acres. Stop trying, you're not funny.I like this new embassy, it's been cited as the "new" pentagon, one bigger than the white house according to PTI workers - the first one in Asia and Pakistan gets to host it.
I agree with the secure part though - especially when in the past the US embassy was burnt down in Pakistan in 1979, so fortified and camouflaged bunkers, 3 helipads, a small air strip, at least a thousand marines stationed and accommodations for at least 5000 staffers seem like overkill, though hard working US tax payers money is getting spent on this.
One obviously would raise doubts on the need for such an embassy, especially when there is news that the US will soon be upgrading it's embassies in Lahore and Peshawar too.
Indian gave them 28 acres in 1950, what is the butt hurt if we gave them 43 in 2014.