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...Armed Forces, it was the worst disaster since the end of the Viet Nam War a decade ago. The terrorist attack illustrated in the most grisly fashion possible just how risky it is for the U.S. to venture, not just with its diplomats but with its troops, into a region that has been plagued for centuries by factionalism and hatred. The carnage in Lebanon was virtually certain to produce a political storm as members of Congress and ordinary Americans questioned the wisdom of a policy they do not always understand. For the fractious little country at the eastern...
Committee, immediately renewed his earlier calls for a withdrawal of the Marines. "They're serving no useful purpose," he said. "If it escalates, we're deeper in the morass, and we've got another Viet Nam on our hands." Though there is little chance, at least initially, that Congress will reverse its decision, the Administration will almost certainly come under far more pressure to justify the peace-keeping mission. "What it all underscores," said Maryland Republican Senator Charles Mathias, "is, what is our Middle East policy? We need a policy." Asked House Democrat David Obey, who had opposed the President...
...sense of sorrow surges from the soul." Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir called the bombing a "despicable crime that was undoubtedly perpetrated by those who want to prevent a peaceful solution in Lebanon and to increase bloodshed." In Moscow, the Communist Party newspaper Pravda observed: "It appears the Viet Nam story begins to repeat itself. The U.S. is getting drawn deeper into the fighting, while generals get more and more freedom of action." As usual in the Lebanese political maelstrom, there was no shortage of suspects for the bombing. Nor was there any certainty that the question would ever...
...Soviets are doing the same thing in Lebanon that they did in Viet Nam. By supplying the Syrians and the Druze with weapons, the U.S.S.R. is fostering internal feuds and abetting the downfall of Lebanon. In the end, the Soviets will not have lost one soldier, but they will have a stranglehold on the area...
...involved with the anti-war movement when I came back from Nam, and many of the people I knew who were against the war are now supportive of the memorial idea," Musgrave said. "They realize the yets are not representative of the government's actions in Vietnam...