Remembering Beirut: The Marine Barracks Bombing and the Lessons of Foreign Policy Restraint, by Jose Alberto Nino

42 years ago yesterday, on October 23, 1983, the early morning quiet at Beirut International Airport shattered when a Mercedes truck carrying 12,000 pounds of TNT crashed through flimsy barriers and detonated inside a U.S. Marine Corps barracks. The explosion killed 241 American service members, inc......

Source: The Unz Review

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