Originally Posted by
The Twilight Mexican
I'm not crazy about Krakoa either and I can tell you there's no room for any other conclusion: when the U.S. ambassador says "What did you think we would do?" he's admitting to what Xavier is accusing him of.
Discussions like this that degenerate into bad-faith attempts to divorce the story from the storytelling -- and bludgeon "technically possible (but not really)" twists of wording into the place of what is actually said -- aren't worth anyone's time.
Watch me ignore my own advice, though:
The Wakandan attache didn't know the U.S. ambassador was expecting armed agents to arrive, and one of the other dignitaries chides him for acting unilaterally. The ambassador’s response to that is to try justifying his actions to the other dignitaries on the basis of "what they are" and that Xavier, et. al. can't be trusted.
It's a conversation, not words floating in from the unknown and destined for nowhere in particular.
The U.S. ambassador may genuinely have not have had anything to do with the assassination attempt on Xavier in "X-Force" #1 ... but he admits twice to attempting an assassination at the summit in "X-Men" #4. You can't try invoking plausibility as an argument while remarking that the ambassador of the United States of America would respond with "What did you think we would do?" to an accusation of attempting to assassinate a foreign head of state ... were that not at least an accurate account of what had occurred =P