Today is the 43rd anniversary of Hezbollah's 1983 truck bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut when the U.S. foolishly tried to keep a peacekeeping force in the city after the Israeli invasion. Per Wikipedia, "[t]he attack killed 307 people: 241 U.S. and 58 French military personnel, six civilians and both the attackers." The explosives were supplied by Iran and the driver of the truck carrying the bomb was Iranian. We should have launched military strikes against Iran at the time, but I guess better late than never. The incident also illustrates the stupidity of not having loaded weapons as both the guards' rifles and the crew served weapons overlooking the approach were unloaded per guidelines issued to the Marines.
First off they weren't barracks. Further, well let Matt Bracken explain.
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Whether they were official barracks, they were de facto barracks. And we should still have bombed the crap out of Iran.
DeleteWe went from neutral party to bombing them. BEFORE the truck bomb hit the HQ full of Marines that didn't want to stay where they were supposed to be because it was raining. RTWT
DeleteI read the post. I just don’t see the relevance of whether the Marines should or shouldn’t have been packed into the building. Bracken’s argument was that it wasn’t terrorism because the Marine encampment was a legitimate military target. If that was true, then a military response against Iran would have also been legitimate.
DeleteFalse Flag.....stop chewing on the official narrative like its a bag of chips.
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Should never have been there.
ReplyDeleteAgreed. And many other places we got involved in (looking at you CIA).
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