Who are you, Mr. Buchanan?

http://www.aipac.org/

Look at the contributions and to whom.

...we bow to pressure and turn against our friend Israel, this will be a dark day for America. The problem w/Buchanan is that when it comes to the border issue he is right on. If he runs for Pres again he's liable to p/u lots of votes on that one issue. I've always been able to spot the fact that Buchanan is a "Haman". Newt needs to step up and run. We have to field a candidate for 08 that is correct on "all" of the issues. So far I'm not impressed w/what we have.
Great info CValley.
DD
http://streetlevel.townhall.com

for your comments and kind words.

Best,
RV

lost credibility with me when he started opposing most of what the Republican Party stands for. I don't know what happened to him and his sister.

has become quite a disappointment to me. I used to think he was a conservative. Now, most of his articles are sounding very anti-semitic and I am disliking him more each week.

He speaks of the Arab countries such as Iran as never causing anyone a problem. I start to think he has lost his reason.

As DD said we cannot abandon Israel. In my opinion we sold them out during the latest Hezbollah conflict.

... Israel did the job that unfortunately US was not able to do 23 years ago:

On October 23 1983, around 6:20 am, a yellow Mercedes-Benz delivery truck drove to Beirut International Airport, where the 1st Battalion 8th Marines, under the U.S. 2nd Marine Division of the United States Marines, had set up its local headquarters.

Locatio: Beirut, Lebanon
Target(s): MIlitary barracks, Beirut, Lebanon
Date 23 October 1983 6:20 am (UTC+3)
Attack Type suicide bombing
Fatalities 299 marines, 6 civilians
Injuries 75

This was the deadliest single-day death toll for the United States Marine Corps since the Battle of Iwo Jima (2,500 in one day) of World War II and the deadliest single-day death toll for the United States military since the 243 killed on 31st January 1968 — the first day of the Tet offensive in the Vietnam war.

The attack remains the deadliest post-World War II attack on Americans overseas.

Who is respocible for the bombing?

The Hezbollah, a Lebanese based militant group backed by Iran and Syria, was responsible for this bombing as well as the bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut in April.
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Response: no response ... yet.

President Ronald Reagan called the attack a "despicable act" and pledged to keep a military force in Lebanon... President Reagan assembled his national security team and planned to target the Sheik Abdullah barracks in Baalbek, Lebanon, which housed Iranian Revolutionary Guards believed to be training Hezbollah fighters.

But Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger aborted the mission, reportedly because of his concerns that it would harm U.S. relations with other Arab nations.

So, there was no serious retaliation for the Beirut bombing from the Americans. In December 1983, U.S. aircraft attacked Syrian targets in Lebanon, but this was in response to Syrian missile attacks on planes, not the barracks bombing.

The Marines were moved offshore where they could not be targeted. On February 7, 1984, President Reagan ordered the Marines to begin withdrawal from Lebanon. This was completed on February 26; the rest of the MNF was withdrawn by April.