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09.03.26 - 05:37
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When Reagan (Wisely) Cut & Run From The Middle East After Marine Barracks Bombing (ZeroHedge)
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When Reagan (Wisely) Cut & Run From The Middle East After Marine Barracks Bombing
Authored by Jim Bovard
In his recent comments justifying a preventive war against Iran, President Donald Trump declared, "In 1983, Iran's proxies carried out the Marine barracks bombing in Beirut that killed 241 American military personnel." Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has invoked that attack numerous times. The 1983 Beirut barracks attack is one of the most cited and least understood pretexts for the new war with Iran.
That bombing was one of President Ronald Reagan's biggest foreign debacles. Lebanon had been wracked by a brutal civil war for seven years when, in June 1982, Israel invaded in order to crush the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO). US troops were briefly deployed in August 1982 in Beirut to help secure a ceasefire to facilitate the withdrawal of the PLO forces to Tunisia.
via Wikimedia
US troops exited Beirut after the PLO withdrawal was largely completed. However, in mid...
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