Psst. Hey buddy. Wanna buy a U.S. Embassy? Take your pick.

The U.S. Government is selling off 29 of my embassies overseas. They didn’t ask my permission, but I would have said ok.

From the Guardian Unlimited (UK):

From Kinshasa to Katmandu, Bangkok to Bogota, U.S. embassies, ambassadorial residences and other diplomatic digs are up for sale as the State Department moves its employees to more secure locations, upgrades facilites and combines operations in multipurpose compounds.

Some 29 properties worth more than $205 million are now on the market in 21 countries, including a huge and historic embassy annex in the heart of London, large chancery buildings in Panama, Nicaragua and Nepal and homes fit for envoys extraordinary in Belize and Venezula.

I was in Moscow, Russia a few years ago and my group went by the U.S. embassy, just to say we’d been there. It was a fortress. I know Jack Bauer goes in and out of embassies like they’re a California fast food restaurant, but that wasn’t happening over there. People forget, our embassies overseas were being attacked long before 9/11. It’s almost surprising this is just happening now, but better now than never.