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Just a little perspective here. The bombing happened in 1983 under then president Ronald Reagan. In response, Reagan did nothing. Congress at the time approved 250 million in aid to Lebannon (after the bombing), which Reagan signed.
Hmmm. Wait a minute that must have been Obama's fault as well.
Just a little perspective here. The bombing happened in 1983 under then president Ronald Reagan. In response, Reagan did nothing. Congress at the time approved 250 million in aid to Lebannon (after the bombing), which Reagan signed.
Hmmm. Wait a minute that must have been Obama's fault as well.
My point is for those to obtuse to divine it is that this is not the first embassy attack in our history and it certainly will not be the last. They did not call Reagan weak. The country came behind him and mourned. Now flash forward to today. Instead of getting behind the President and Chief, the Republican party and Romney are trying to tear him down and are blaming him for the attack.
Well the USS Cole happened under Clinton...it's 2012 not 1983 or 2000.
USS Cole is not an embassy, are were you not aware of that. The beirut embassy scenario and the present day are very similar as Lebannon was in the midst of civil unrest just as we have today. The difference between the two is how our citizens rally around the president. Romney's statements have been disgraceful and undermine the role of the President when it is a time to rally behind.
Just a little perspective here. The bombing happened in 1983 under then president Ronald Reagan. In response, Reagan did nothing. Congress at the time approved 250 million in aid to Lebannon (after the bombing), which Reagan signed.
Hmmm. Wait a minute that must have been Obama's fault as well.
Here's something I found that might be interesting:
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With America's attention fixed on China and the Soviet Union these days, it is odd to remember how long and steadily we have gazed at news from the Middle East. Events thought ineradicable at the time they occurred now have to be recalled deliberately: the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in the spring of 1982. The P.L.O.'s retreat from that country. The suitcase-bomb assassination of the President of Lebanon, Bashir Gemayel, in September 1982. Shortly afterward, the massacre of over 200 Palestinian men, women and children by units of Phalangists in the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila. The suicide bombing of the American Embassy in Beirut in April 1983. The suicide attack on the Marine headquarters in October 1983, in which 241 servicemen were killed. The hijacking of a T.W.A. jetliner to Beirut, and the brutal, casual murder of an American seaman on board, his body dumped from the plane like a sack of mail. The Achille Lauro hijacking, and the murder of the wheelchair-bound Leon Klinghoffer. Countless killings, kidnappings and bombings among the sects and factions in Lebanon. Most recently, the Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip hurling stones at Israeli soldiers, and the retaliating Israelis wielding clubs and firing guns.
Tell me this happened because of american imperialism, or over oil, or over a stupid movie.
These were terrorists. There is no difference. I am old enough to remember. I was in the Marine Corps at the time and I lost a couple of friends.
The big difference between the two is that at the embassy in 1983 they were not allowed to have loaded weapons to protect the embassy. To his credit, Reagan took responsibility for his administrations failure to allow the Marines to have loaded weapons. They had loaded weapons in this tragedy.
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