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@ Libertadd
2025-05-03 18:29:11
Did you know that the Marines were not allowed to have cartridges in their Rifles in Beirut.
The Reagan administration’s meddling in Lebanon’s civil war, though, showed that there remained an extensive public and elite aversion to American casualties. The loss of 241 Marines in the bombing of the U.S. barracks outside Beirut immediately caused the administration to move the remaining troops to ships off shore, and that step was just a prelude to the departure of all U.S. forces from Lebanon.