Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
More projection than a 24-theater multiplex
Umm…Michelle? Reality’s here to poke a hole in your hermetically-sealed bubble:
Besides a few shellings, there was no serious retaliation for the Beirut bombing from the Americans. In December 1983, U.S. aircraft attacked Syrian targets in Lebanon, but this was in response to Syrian missile attacks on planes, not the barracks bombing.
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Amal militia leader Nabih Berri, who had previously supported U.S. mediation efforts, asked the U.S. and France to leave Lebanon and accused the U.S. and France of seeking to commit ‘massacres’ against the Lebanese and creating a “climate of racism” against the Shia. Islamic Jihad phoned in new threats against the MNF “pledging that ‘the earth would tremble’ unless the MNF withdrew by New Year’s Day 1984.
The Marines were moved offshore where they could not be targeted. On February 7, 1984, President Reagan ordered the Marines to begin withdrawal from Lebanon. This was completed on February 26, four months after the barracks bombing; the rest of the Multinational Force was withdrawn by April.
Yep. Your hero St. Ronnie “Red Ink” Raygun delivered an anemic response and then “cut and run” from Lebanon! So STFU about “libruls” being the ones who refuse to “defend America.”
