[Alberta's Child]

One of the details about the Beirut barracks bombing that doesn’t get a lot of attention is that the suicide bomber was able to drive his bomb-laden truck past the guard post because the military leadership refused to let the guards carry ammunition in their weapons.

Reagan didn’t “blink.” He simply recognized that it was a f#%&ing disgrace to ever send those Marines over there in the first place.

[Robert DeLong]

Well we can agree to disagree, but had the bombing been allowed to proceed, it would have changed the course of history, and for the better.