That is, the imperatives of Empire and the utterly mistaken notion that America needed allies in the Middle East and had to engage in active policing of the region in the name of national security. In short order, of course, the mainly US manned Multinational Peacekeeping Force that had been dropped into Beiruit was caught up in the aftermath of a vicious genocidal attack on the the Palastinain refugee camps at Sabra and Shatila, followed by the counterattack in the Marine Barracks which occurred a few weeks later. Holding his fingers up in the air to mark the coordinates, he then pronounced after testing his fingers’ span against the “scale of miles” on the map that it was his conclusion that the bad guys could be hit by the big guns on the New Jersey.
Author: David Stockman
Published at: 2026-03-16 23:35:53
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