25 years after the Marine barracks bombing, wrong lessons learned
The Washington Note (Free subscription) | 10/23/2008
... opposition fighters. Now the US was just another militia in the Lebanese civil war. At the time Peter Rodman of Policy Planning at the State department provided the philosophical underpinning for the US attacks. The Americans chose not to raise the alert level for the Marines who were part of the multinational forces in Beirut itself, because they thought that would admit or imply...
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