Comment Re:Windfall taxes are a crap idea. (Score 2) 825
Does said US citizen get to hold his US passport?
Possibly.
Does he get to use US Embassies?
Ditto
BLOCKQUOTE>Will he be rescued by the US military if kidnapped in Iraq?
Extremely unlikely.
I lived in Venezuela during the military coup of 2002. The US embassy actually did make arrangements to potentially helicopter out US citizens if the situation got bad enough. So they do look out for US citizens abroad, when possible. I would call in twice a day to determine whether or not I was supposed to try and escape the country. And no, I was not a US Government employee there at the time.