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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (65264)	12/5/1999 1:28:00 PM
From: Alexander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Charley, Those Marines had no business in Beiruit at that time..Reagan was not running that show..GHWB was..I saw the aftermath..We were in the middle of a 700 year war.:-(

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (65264)	12/5/1999 3:14:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

<<Regarding the "slaughter" on the road away from Kuwait, true enough, it was begun, but soon stopped because they were shooting fish in a barrel. It was the honorable thing to do.>> What was the honorable thing to do? Slaughter those Iraqi soldiers, or stop doing it? I have read estimates that as many as a couple hundred thousand Iraqi soldiers were killed in this way. These were mostly raw conscripts with wives and children who were also victims of Saddam Hussein, who were just stuck there in the desert.

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (65264)	12/5/1999 10:29:00 PM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

He brought the bodies home and invaded Granada as a coverup. Neither you or I know who was tactically responsible for the slaughter of the Rangers. If you will read about the attitude of force protection, the number 1 priority of the 10th Mountain Division in Bosnia, you will see what over-reaction (cowardice?) has done. It is ridiculous to spend billions on soldiers and equipment and then be afraid to use it for fear of loss. The problem with the Beirut Marines was the same as at Khe Sanh. They were not allowed to patrol and became a sitting target. This is a problem of doctrine and training. You would have thought we had learned something from the French at Dien Bien Phu and the Tet offensive, or for that matter from Fredericksurg or Chancellorsville. "Get out and hunt the buggers!" we used to say. Good doctrine.