John Baird
Coatesville, Pennsylvania, United States
>Maybe so. At least there was a direct offense with the hostage situation. What would be our rationale for attacking them now? That we think they may be up to something?
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>I'm not trying to attack anyone personally here....but I'm astonished by the naïveté of some of these responses. Not only was there a direct offense with the hostage situation - Iran's senior government officials (with help from Syria) backed the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983, which killed a total of 300 people, including about 240 servicemen.
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>Prior to 9/11, this was the biggest state-sponsored terrorist attack against U.S. citizens. FOLKS, 240 SERVICEMAN WERE KILLED IN THEIR SLEEP BY A STATE-SPONSORED SUICIDE BOMBER.
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>The United States basically did NOTHING...an absolute disgrace.
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>Apologists and appeasers that have tainted our country's foreign policy when dealing with obvious threats. And state-sponsored terrorists know this - that they can attack us, and then sit back and watch all the bickering as we decide not to fight back for fear of retaliation. This country needs another Truman.
I was there and the U.S. did nothing, nobody did anything. Just like Clinton did nothing to prevent 9/11. Maybe those Marines shoulda finished in high school....
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