During the Lebanese Civil War, a multinational force including 800 U.S. Marines lands in Beirut to oversee the Palestinian withdrawal from Lebanon. It was the beginning of a problem-plagued mission that would stretch into 17 months and leave 262 U.S. servicemen dead.
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In 1975, a bloody civil war erupted in Lebanon, with Palestinian and leftist Muslim guerrillas battling militias of the Christian Phalange Party, the Maronite Christian community, and other groups. During the next few years, Syrian, Israeli, and United Nations interventions failed to resolve the factional fighting, and in August 1982 a multinational force arrived to oversee the Palestinian withdrawal from Lebanon.
The Marines left Lebanese territory on September 10 but returned on September 29 following the massacre of Palestinian refugees by a Christian militia. The next day, the first U.S. Marine to die during the mission was killed while defusing a bomb. On April 18, 1983, the U.S. embassy in Beirut was devastated by a car bomb, killing 63 people, including 17 Americans. Then, on October 23, Lebanese terrorists evaded security measures and drove a truck packed with explosives into the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, killing 241 U.S. military personnel. Fifty-eight French soldiers were killed almost simultaneously in a separate suicide terrorist attack. On February 7, 1984, President Ronald Reagan announced the end of U.S. participation in the peacekeeping force.
241 Souls lost in an instant for no fucking reason at all……And it was just the beginning.
Thank God we won!! Seriously, when was the last time you read about some Lebanese terrorist fuckers bombing the USA? Case closed.
At least Reagan had enough common sense to pull everyone out following the attack. And yet we stayed in Vietnam until 50,000 lives had been pointlessly wasted, and have been in Afghanistan and Iraq for over 16 years. Of course a much smarter move would have been to simply stay in America. But clearly Reagan’s policies were about enriching the military-industrial-banking complex so no real shock.
58,000
Winston Churchill said “The Americans will eventually do the right thing , after they exhaust all other alternatives ” . To bad he was correct in his time frame of history and now completely off the mark . Americans do all the wrong things for all the wrong reasons and when hit between the eyes with failure we double down over and over and over .
It’s as if total destruction of our country and way of life is the ultimate goal and it has been subverted so heniously as to somehow be sold as the will of the people
I have a great deal of respect for the men and women who wear the uniform and swear their sacred honor to protect and defend this nation from all enimies foreign and domestic . Pity the domestic enimies of this nation are in control of those who wear that uniform !
What they didnt say was that we were there to maintain the status quo after Israel had invaded, occupied half the country and Beirut as well. Their intent was to steal the water and do to the Lebanese what they have done to the Palistinians for 60 years.
Reagan realized his mistake and got the fuck out. Then Hezbollah drove the Israelis out of Lebanon. 24 years later Hezbollah would do it again. Hezbollah kicks Israeli ass (yes, I love them).
Thus endith another history lesson.