PEACE:
Foreign Policy & Terrorism | October 27,
1983
THE
TRAGIC
& SCANDALOUS
LOSS
OF
OUR
MARINES
IN
LEBANON
A
Published Letter to Los Angeles Times
The failure of the present Administration to
effectively use its considerable defensive and political
leverage over the past, crucial year to move the present
Lebanese administration to adopt righteous, democratic reforms --
needed to undercut the widespread native support for
Lebanese rebel militias -- all the while exposing loyal U.S.
servicemen to the most vulnerable positions in that
civil-war-torn area has been tantamount to the bellicose
schoolboy daring others to "knock this chip off my
shoulder!"
Now, a suicide bomber from one of the countless
Lebanese fanatical groups has done just that: At least 216
Americans are newly dead. And Lebanon is still crippled by
anarchy; foreign forces; and at the heart of it all, a selfish,
minority government, which, like all too many others secured by
us around the world, this present American Administration
steadfastly refuses to press for truly American, democratic
reforms. We, the free American people, must boldly speak out,
before more beloved lives and national pride are squandered!
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