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Better late than never, but I suspect it’s more likely to be never.
The Defense Department ratcheted up its rhetoric against Iran on Monday, saying it will hold Tehran ultimately responsible for a spate of recent drone and rocket attacks on American troops in the Middle East.
While the Pentagon does not have information that the government of Iran “explicitly ordered” the attacks on U.S. forces in the past week, the groups responsible for the incidents are backed by Tehran, DOD spokesperson Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder told reporters on Monday.
“By virtue of the fact that they are supported by Iran, we will ultimately hold Iran responsible,” Ryder said.
This is the 40th anniversary of the bombing of the Marine Barracks in Beirut.
“The worst part for me is that nobody remembers,” Mark Nevells said last year on the anniversary of the Hezbollah bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut.
A Marine had thrown his body in front of the truck to try stop the vehicle and afterward for five days, Nevells and other Marines had dug through the rubble for the bodies of the men they had served with.
One of the first Marines on the scene heard voices coming from underneath the rubble. “Get us out. Don’t leave us.”
The Marines lost more people that day than at any time since Iwo Jima and the number of Americans murdered that day by a terrorist group was a record that would stand until September 11.
Before the attack, the NSA intercepted a message from Iranian intelligence in Tehran to the Iranian ambassador in Damascus ordering “a spectacular action against the United States Marines.”
Mohsen Rafiqdoost, Khomeini’s bodyguard who helped found Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and served as Minister of Revolutionary Guards during the bombing, boasted, “both the TNT and the ideology, which in one blast sent to hell 400 officers, NCOs, and soldiers at the Marines headquarters, were provided by Iran.”
The Marines who died in the bombing were lucky. Another Marine did not die as quickly.
Colonel William R. Higgins was captured by Hezbollah, the terrorist group acting as Iran’s hand in Lebanon, and tortured for months until his body was dumped near a mosque.
An autopsy report found that he had been starved and had suffered multiple lethal injuries that could have caused his death. The skin on his face had been partially removed along with his tongue and he had also been castrated.
Fred Hof, a diplomat who had been a friend of the murdered man, said, “I am one of a small handful of Americans who knows the exact manner of Rich’s death. If I were to describe it to you now – which I will not – I can guarantee that a significant number of people in this room would become physically ill.”
So what did we do about that? We’re actually funding Iranian-backed attacks against us in Iraq.
Iraq’s latest budget dedicates $2.8 billion to Shiite PMU terror militias including Kataeb Hezbollah: an Iran-backed terror group that has been responsible for the deaths of numerous American soldiers.
At the height of the Iraq War, Kataeb Hezbollah was using Iranian IEDs to kill American soldiers. Kataeb Hezbollah is listed as a foreign terrorist organization which makes it a crime for Americans to fund it. But that hasn’t stopped the Biden administration from providing massive amounts of foreign aid to Iraq.
While some U.S. conflicts with Jihadists in the region are old news, Kataeb Hezbollah fired rockets at the U.S. embassy in Baghdad in 2019, and has bombed U.S. bases in recent years. Kataeb Hezbollah killed two American soldiers in 2020: Army Spc. Juan Miguel Mendez Covarrubias and Air Force Staff Sgt. Marshal D. Roberts.
40 years and counting. What have we done about any of it? Why should we expect Iran to take the lives of American soldiers more seriously than we take them?
That was awful. They were sitting ducks where they were located.
And the beloved Ronnie Reagan didn’t do shit about it. I liked the guy, he was charming, but he just let Hizb’allah get away with that. Epic fail on his part.
Charming isn’t an adjective it’s a verb. Charming is what a charmer actively and intentionally tries to do to you. Beware of charmers, Obama is a charmer, plenty have fallen for his charm.
Ronald Reagan was also responsible for illegal alien amnesty all in the name of altruism.
I agree he could have been more responsive to that attack, i was in the corps at the time and those were my buddies, i cannot lay the amnesty at his feet, he was promised border enforcement, but the democrats reneged on their promise, shocker, but back then, there was still a certain comradery across the aisle.
“Charming” is usually an adjective.
Between the two of us, I reckon I’m the only one who was an English teacher.
Between the two of us I reckon I’m the only one who gets the irony.
I’m sure that fewer and fewer each day remember that horrific event, but I do. Another example of our country’s incapability of following up on actionable intelligence. To your point, nothing has really changed, as is evidenced by fighting-aged Muslim men strolling through our porous southern border. Sure, we’ll catch the occasional idiot who’s stupid enough to show his cards…but how many have we missed?
Hezbollah and Iran have much and will have much to answer for, but there’s plenty of blame to go around. While the Pentagon talks tough, they’ve only committed to THAAD and Patriot anti-missile systems so far, with US sailors and Marines off the coast enjoying “three hots and a cot” while running endless drills. The Agency needs to start actually reading their intercepts and this lame administration either needs to sh*t or get off the pot.
I would like to relate one thing about the marine barracks bombing. I wored with a lady whose son was in Parris Island, training to be a Marine. I have this fellow (I knew him personally) and liked him so I wrote that if the U.S. sends you guys to Lebanon, they will try to kill you. I gave such advice as shoot anything that makes you nervous. If cornered, — claim oversight. The Marine trainers at Parris Island burned a lot of my friend’s mother’s letters to him in front of him. however, they let this fellow — he is now a cop in the South end of Boston – read my letter. They thought I was a clown and the letter was a joke. I wasn’t joking as events in 1983 proved me out.
Part of the reason I say this is because the antisemites say that Israel knew about the Marine Barracks bombing, but did not tell the U.S. Pres. Reagan’s pro Saudia policy helped get us into that mess. And Pres. REagan was quite an Israel basher in his first term.
The U.S. and European allies have — despite ceaseless and innumerable attacks — failed to treat Muslim supremacism and terrorism with the seriousness it deserves, as the Allies treated the Axis powers, in WWII.
Instead, we witness the dhimmis’ and Dhimmi-crats’ indefensible, feckless and evil dhimmitude, enabling, rationalizing, funding and kowtowing to Muslim supremacists and terrorist outfits and sponsors, around the world.
Some give Reagan a hard time for his weak position at this moment but at the end of the day he was fighting a war on two fronts and he won. It remains to be seen whether future generations will win.
Una, Reagan lost the wars against Hizb’allah and Dirtbagocrat amnesty for wetbacks.
Well Jeff you’re living pretty smart as a result of that aren’t you?
What? how did I benefit from 241 Marines getting blown up, or wetbacks taking my jobs in construction for less money?
Sometimes you write things which make no sense.
Don’t you like your nice life Jeff?
My life isn’t so nice and I don’t owe it to anybody but myself. I’ve earned what little I have.
My girlfriend and I broke up recently and I’ve been a wreck ever since. Boo, hoo. 😛
I think you like it very much,
I like being alive, if that’s what you mean. FUCK death.
Otherwise I live in a studio apartment all by myself and recently had my car stolen. And my girlfriend and I broke up even though we were in love with each other.
There isn’t much to like but I get by. There’s always something good coming. 🙂
Jeff, you never understood Reagan because you never understood the world.
I understand the world and Reagan but I admit I was a clueless teen when he was President. All I cared about was hanging out with my friends, girls and smoking pot. I always liked him, even though the fake news media constantly told me to hate him. I liked Thatcher, too.
They are going for the highest stakes here. I don’t know what you are doing. Playing like you will be in charge because you’ve always been in charge or some stupid sh*t like that.
I actually have been in charge throughout my various careers. I’m good at it.
Not now, though. I’m subject to my slut-pig-dog-whore ex wife. She gets more of my wages than I do when I’m dumb enough to work “above the table.” Over 50%. And if I get any type of refund or payout from the government, ALL of it goes to her. And the USA government steals 33% of wages in payroll taxes which we never get back. So when I work a regular job, it’s only for 25% or so of what I toiled for.
FUCK that shit.
Being in charge doesn’t mean shit against those conditions. I always helped to develop my employees, though. I was like a Pastor that way. Help them be successful and go on to better things.
You’re like how can we possibly fail?? I mean like totally. I mean never mind the lessons of history.
I mean the overriding thing here is that these clowns thought they stould exempt from history on 10/7 or 9/11 or whatever date you want to do. And the reasons for this are multifold and you could delve into them if you wanted to.
Anyway, because I introduced him(maybe not such a good idea) here we have to have to have ecstatic glee of the Scottish enthusiast Neil Oliver,
He would tell me that it’s not glee but I think some of his guests would know better,
This iron set crown that has delved into nothing deep his whole history. That knows nothing that wasn’t taught him.
anyway the reason Levin is so weak is because of Trump. This is going to cause me serious damage but this Is the reason.
I mean the reason is they don’t even know how to fight. They don’t even know to solidify themselves in the fight.
What is it old Israelis know beyond what they don’t want to know?
What they don’t want to know but what they learned?
The RAF are now recruiting for Hamas reserves that can bomb them behind the lines.
Yea, he never thought he;d bring saying this but he;s now he’s saying this because he’s basically retarded
He never thought he’d say this but now gasp, sigh he’ bringing this
I mean OMG don’t you even know how to fight. I suppose you don’t you don’t know to fight except for fags getting thrown from tenth story windows.
Like this is some kind of game
Like you know something they don’t know about you. Fags.
The man who decided to do nothing was General Colin Powell. He hid the information from higher up. Powell is a rat – a dirty rat.
Read about it here:
Anyway, there’s one thing that always struck me wrong about Shoa. It always struck me really wrong and that’s right at the end. Because the rest as terrible as it was was typical Europe.
So typically Europe it’s typically represented in the Italian PM or whatever title she wears. I don’t care.
That’s right at the end when you see what title they have to wear even for Israelis.
Israelis who want to dream they live in a new day.
It always struck me wrong, I can never forget it. Looking on Utube all I get is bullcrap, mostly. Nothing. If I get anything it’s discouraging me from something. Or I get stupid retarded morons making hands at something they can’t bring themselves to even begin contemplate.
Like I’m supposed to respect them.
The reason Levin is weak is because of Trump. I’m sorry but that has to be said.
Americans will respect Israel so much more if it does what it has to do in spite of their crappy guidance which really is crappy.
The crappiness of American delusions which are based in nothing more than power which they no longer maintain and have no desire to maintain.
And given that everything is based on power these days you can expect everything else to follow.
Obviously right at the end is the extent to which everything is known it becomes so much more appealing to have it unknown.
“Tucker Carlson talks war with Iran” which is obviously the safest option for Tucker getting him as far from actual conflict as possible. Obviously Iran is behind it all but just as obviously Tucker knows he’s never going to engage with that in Israel. Tucker Carlson.
Tucker will always go with the safest option. Maybe not his personal demise but to the demise of us all.
*not to his* – Your comment is too short—try writing a little more
JP has news for you. If your IQ is less than 83 you’re going to have trouble dealing with all the a-holes whose IQ is 83.
When I say wrong I mean that he couldn’t be who he was.
Damn Una. You post so many comments that you should become an official writer here.
Come to think of it, you should apply.
You let this guy prattle on every god damn day and yet you zap pretty much every one of my occasional attempts to add to your idiotic discussions. fuck you and fuck every one who reads these ghastly comments, including myself. Dan Greenfield is a smart and courageous cookie, as is or was Dave Horowitz. They owe a lot more to Ayn Rand than any of you creeps care to admit, and it’s too bad, because you can play your little word games and wield your knowledge of newspaper history and minute junk culture all you want here, in the depths of fringe far right debate class, all you want. You’re still not out there in the day to day real world fighting these monsters, are you? You know, like Victor Davis Hanson. Speaking of another genius who scrupulously hides his debt to and inspiration derived from Rand like it were a case of the clap from his parents. Seriously, Una Salus, do us all a favor and quit bullying people in your coy way. Talk about fags! It tales one to know one, buster. Go down to your local bar and order glass of milk or hot cocoa, like you were Colonel Klink. Throw your rap down to the boys down there and see where it gets you — and more importantly see where it leaves you. Pick on people your own size leave the pushing around small fry to old assholes like me
Una is a chick.