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<blockquote data-quote="dennishoddy" data-source="post: 3207950" data-attributes="member: 5412"><p>Trump sure won't, but past Presidents did, and it was a dismal failure.</p><p>Oct 23, 1983</p><p>On this day, a suicide bomber drives a truck filled with 2,000 pounds of explosives into a U.S. Marine Corps barracks at the Beirut International Airport. The explosion killed 220 Marines, 18 sailors and three soldiers. A few minutes after that bomb went off, a second bomber drove into the basement of the nearby French paratroopers’ barracks, killing 58 more people. Four months after the bombing, American forces left Lebanon without retaliating.</p><p></p><p>The Marines in Beirut were part of a multinational peacekeeping force that was trying to broker a truce between warring Christian and Muslim Lebanese factions. In 1981, American troops had supervised the withdrawal of the <a href="https://www.history.com/topics/palestine" target="_blank">Palestine</a> Liberation Organization (PLO) from Beirut and then had withdrawn themselves. They returned the next year, after Israel’s Lebanese allies slaughtered nearly 1,000 unarmed Palestinian civilian refugees. Eighteen hundred Marine peacekeepers moved into an old Israeli Army barracks near the airport—a fortress with two-foot–thick walls that could, it seemed, withstand anything. Even after a van bomb killed 46 people at the U.S. Embassy in April, the American troops maintained their non-martial stance: their perimeter fence remained relatively unfortified, for instance and their sentries’ weapons were unloaded.</p><p></p><p>At about 6:20 in the morning on October 23, 1983, a yellow <a href="http://i.viglink.com/?key=1b475e2d3e085f0ff12aad1dcf010a10&insertId=a28a5e7c4a947d89&type=KW&exp=-1%3Ana%3A0&libId=jsgvmm1x0102pane000DAbul9gcee&loc=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.history.com%2Fthis-day-in-history%2Fu-s-embassy-in-beirut-hit-by-massive-car-bomb&v=1&iid=a28a5e7c4a947d89&opt=true&out=https%3A%2F%2Fshop.advanceautoparts.com%2Fweb%2FPartSearchCmd%3FstoreId%3D10151%26catalogId%3D10051%26langId%3D-1%26pageId%3DpartTypeList%26actionSrc%3DForm%26searchTerm%3Dmercedes&ref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&title=U.S.%20Embassy%20in%20Beirut%20hit%20by%20massive%20car%20bomb%20-%20HISTORY&txt=%3Cspan%3EMercedes%3C%2Fspan%3E" target="_blank">Mercedes</a> truck charged through the barbed-wire fence around the American compound and plowed past two guard stations. It drove straight into the barracks and exploded. Eyewitnesses said that the force of the blast caused the entire building to float up above the ground for a moment before it pancaked down in a cloud of pulverized concrete and human remains. <a href="https://www.history.com/topics/fbi" target="_blank">FBI</a> investigators said that it was the largest non-nuclear explosion since <a href="https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii" target="_blank">World War II</a> and certainly the most powerful car bomb ever detonated.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/u-s-embassy-in-beirut-hit-by-massive-car-bomb" target="_blank">https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/u-s-embassy-in-beirut-hit-by-massive-car-bomb</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dennishoddy, post: 3207950, member: 5412"] Trump sure won't, but past Presidents did, and it was a dismal failure. Oct 23, 1983 On this day, a suicide bomber drives a truck filled with 2,000 pounds of explosives into a U.S. Marine Corps barracks at the Beirut International Airport. The explosion killed 220 Marines, 18 sailors and three soldiers. A few minutes after that bomb went off, a second bomber drove into the basement of the nearby French paratroopers’ barracks, killing 58 more people. Four months after the bombing, American forces left Lebanon without retaliating. The Marines in Beirut were part of a multinational peacekeeping force that was trying to broker a truce between warring Christian and Muslim Lebanese factions. In 1981, American troops had supervised the withdrawal of the [URL='https://www.history.com/topics/palestine']Palestine[/URL] Liberation Organization (PLO) from Beirut and then had withdrawn themselves. They returned the next year, after Israel’s Lebanese allies slaughtered nearly 1,000 unarmed Palestinian civilian refugees. Eighteen hundred Marine peacekeepers moved into an old Israeli Army barracks near the airport—a fortress with two-foot–thick walls that could, it seemed, withstand anything. Even after a van bomb killed 46 people at the U.S. Embassy in April, the American troops maintained their non-martial stance: their perimeter fence remained relatively unfortified, for instance and their sentries’ weapons were unloaded. At about 6:20 in the morning on October 23, 1983, a yellow [URL='http://i.viglink.com/?key=1b475e2d3e085f0ff12aad1dcf010a10&insertId=a28a5e7c4a947d89&type=KW&exp=-1%3Ana%3A0&libId=jsgvmm1x0102pane000DAbul9gcee&loc=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.history.com%2Fthis-day-in-history%2Fu-s-embassy-in-beirut-hit-by-massive-car-bomb&v=1&iid=a28a5e7c4a947d89&opt=true&out=https%3A%2F%2Fshop.advanceautoparts.com%2Fweb%2FPartSearchCmd%3FstoreId%3D10151%26catalogId%3D10051%26langId%3D-1%26pageId%3DpartTypeList%26actionSrc%3DForm%26searchTerm%3Dmercedes&ref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&title=U.S.%20Embassy%20in%20Beirut%20hit%20by%20massive%20car%20bomb%20-%20HISTORY&txt=%3Cspan%3EMercedes%3C%2Fspan%3E']Mercedes[/URL] truck charged through the barbed-wire fence around the American compound and plowed past two guard stations. It drove straight into the barracks and exploded. Eyewitnesses said that the force of the blast caused the entire building to float up above the ground for a moment before it pancaked down in a cloud of pulverized concrete and human remains. [URL='https://www.history.com/topics/fbi']FBI[/URL] investigators said that it was the largest non-nuclear explosion since [URL='https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii']World War II[/URL] and certainly the most powerful car bomb ever detonated. [URL]https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/u-s-embassy-in-beirut-hit-by-massive-car-bomb[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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