HereWeGoAgain
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- Dec 15, 2010
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Were they inserted into this town the way our Marines were inserted into the Beirut airport? Or were our Marines in Iraq already there and subsequently surrounded, just like the Marines in Kai Sahn?Of course a sneak attack is harder to defend against. But security in a combat zone is paramount. I suppose defending against a speeding truck could be a contingency trained cadres can prepare for.Are you somehow trying to rationalize the deaths of 238 Marines at the Beirut airport as unavoidable? As excusable? As expendable personnel? Our Marines in Iraq know the fight is upon them as our Marines in Beirut knew.Yep...partisan hack.
You must be the type to sucker punch someone and call it a fair fight.
I gotta ask...do you play the knockout game?
I just pray we don't make the Reagan mistake and leave them without adequate means of security, or worse, allow them to die and then throw up our hands and leave. But, then again, there might be a medical school in the Caribbean we could 'save' in order to save face.
No one said that. But a sneak attack is way harder to stop than one you know is coming. If you deny that i'm done with you.
Well if security in a combat zone is paramount ...why the hell are those marines surrounded? Dont you think they should have been pulled out or reinforced already?
The US didnt know about the troop build up through the winter and fall and thought the attack on "Khe Sanh" was just another border skirmish.
Their problem was lack of intel.