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He said one of his greatest regrets was in failing to overcome the arguments that "'Marines don't cut and run,' and 'We can't leave because we're there'" before the devastating suicide attack on the lightly armed force.

Everything that followed including 9-11 falls back in part to our nonresponse to the wholesale murder of our Marines that day.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

"Everything that followed including 9-11 falls back in part to our nonresponse to the wholesale murder of our Marines that day."

Didn't help. But it goes further back than that, at least to Jimmy Carter's betrayal of the Shah and his impotent response to the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.