Subj : The War Has No Clothes
To   : Finnigann
From : The Lizard Master
Date : Thu Sep 29 2005 02:40 pm

  Re: The War Has No Clothes
  By: Finnigann to Jazzman on Thu Sep 29 2005 12:33 pm

 > 	Even hawkish Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., who was a special assistant t
 > President Reagan in the 1980s, acknowledges that the decision to send troops
 > into Lebanon was perhaps the worst foreign policy mistake of Reagan's
 > presidency. The United States promptly found itself in the middle of a civil
 > war as a de facto ally of the Christian-dominated Lebanese government. Ameri
 > troops became entangled in skirmishes with Muslim militias, and U.S.
 > battleships off the coast proceeded to shell Muslim villages. The disastrous
 > intervention culminated with an attack by a suicide car bomber against the
 > Marine barracks in Beirut that left 241 Marines dead. A few months later,
 > Reagan cut his losses and pulled out of Lebanon
 > 

Regan must have hated the troops very much to pull them out of there.

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