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From: tommyo@ihuxw.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Helpless in Lebanon
Message-ID: <548@ihuxw.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 27-Oct-83 20:19:07 EST
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Posted: Thu Oct 27 20:19:07 1983
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What I am still trying to understand is why in the world
our boys in Lebanon weren`t armed.  What good does it do
to have a peacekeeping force placed in the middle of a war
without having adequate protection?  It`s like dropping
a person from an airplane 20,000 feet in the air, and
not giving them a parachute.  Whether or not they should
be there is irrelevant.  The fact of the matter is they
are there, and ought to be able to protect themselves.
There was a report on the radio that Marines were able
to spot snipers taking a position to fire on them, but
couldn`t fire until they were fired at.  Hey, I always
let a killer have first crack at me before I defend
myself.  I don`t know who is running the show over there,
but they ought to be a little more realistic.  If we`re
gonna have Americans over there, let`s protect them.
The deaths of over 200 U.S. Marines should have never
happened.  I only hope we learn from this horrible
incident and not let ourselves be ambushed again.

Tom O`Connor