July 28, 2006
At war since 1979
Are attacks on our military personnel overseas and on our embassies considered "acts of war" by international law? Well, if so we have had more than enough provocation for way over half of my life. In Ann Coulter's latest opinion piece, she lists the terrorist attacks the United States has suffered since the year I always count as the start of our war with Islamic fascism:
- November 1979: Muslim extremists (Iranian variety) seized the U.S. embassy in Iran and held 52 American hostages for 444 days, following Democrat Jimmy Carter's masterful foreign policy granting Islamic fanaticism its first real foothold in the Middle East.
- 1982: Muslim extremists (mostly Hezbollah) began a nearly decade-long habit of taking Americans and Europeans hostage in Lebanon, killing William Buckley and holding Terry Anderson for six and a half years.
- April 1983: Muslim extremists (Islamic Jihad or possibly Hezbollah) bombed the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, killing 16 Americans.
- October 1983: Muslim extremists (Hezbollah) blew up the U.S. Marine barracks at the Beirut airport, killing 241 Marines.
- December 1983: Muslim extremists (al-Dawa) blew up the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait, killing five and injuring 80.
- September 1984: Muslim extremists (Hezbollah) exploded a truck bomb at the U.S. Embassy annex in Beirut, killing 24 people, including two U.S. servicemen.
- December 1984: Muslim extremists (probably Hezbollah) hijacked a Kuwait Airways airplane, landed in Iran and demanded the release of the 17 members of al-Dawa who had been arrested for the bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait, killing two Americans before the siege was over.
- June 14, 1985: Muslim extremists (Hezbollah) hijacked TWA Flight 847 out of Athens, diverting it to Beirut, taking the passengers hostage in return for the release of the Kuwait 17 as well as another 700 prisoners held by Israel. When their demands were not met, the Muslims shot U.S. Navy diver Robert Dean Stethem and dumped his body on the tarmac.
- October 1985: Muslim extremists (Palestine Liberation Front backed by Libya) seized an Italian cruise ship, the Achille Lauro, killing 69-year-old American Leon Klinghoffer by shooting him and then tossing his body overboard.
- December 1985: Muslim extremists (backed by Libya) bombed airports in Rome and Vienna, killing 20 people, including five Americans.
- April 1986: Muslim extremists (backed by Libya) bombed a discotheque frequented by U.S. servicemen in West Berlin, injuring hundreds and killing two, including a U.S. soldier.
- December 1988: Muslim extremists (backed by Libya) bombed Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 259 on board and 11 on the ground.
[. . .]
- February 1993: Muslim extremists (al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya, possibly with involvement of friendly rival al-Qaida) set off a bomb in the basement of the World Trade Center, killing six and wounding more than 1,000.
- Spring 1993: Muslim extremists (al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya, the Sudanese Islamic Front and at least one member of Hamas) plot to blow up the Lincoln and Holland tunnels, the U.N. complex and the FBI's lower Manhattan headquarters.
- November 1995: Muslim extremists (possibly Iranian "Party of God") explode a car bomb at U.S. military headquarters in Saudi Arabia, killing five U.S. military servicemen.
- June 1996: Muslim extremists (13 Saudis and a Lebanese member of Hezbollah, probably with involvement of al-Qaida) explode a truck bomb outside the Khobar Towers military complex, killing 19 American servicemen and injuring hundreds.
- August 1998: Muslim extremists (al-Qaida) explode truck bombs at U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing 224 and injuring thousands.
- October 2000: Muslim extremists (al-Qaida) blow up the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Cole, killing 17 U.S. sailors.
- Sept. 11, 2001: Muslim extremists (al-Qaida) hijack commercial aircraft and fly planes into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania, killing nearly 3,000 Americans.
And except for Ronald Reagan launching missles at Qaddafi and our current milquetoast war against Islamic Fascism (a/k/a "The War of Terror") we have been sitting on our hands for twenty-seven years without doing what needs to be done.
Just a reminder, folks, that "normalcy" is not what it seems.
Posted by George Moneo at July 28, 2006 02:39 PM
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Don't forget Clinton's courageous attack on the aspirin factory in Sudan.
Posted by: jsb ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.babalublog.com/nav-commenters.gif)
at July 28, 2006 02:46 PM
per the President "a Lebanon that governs its own destiny" so they want to send UN troops in for that reason.
SO WHAT ABOUT CUBA? If you want to stick your nose in some country, many countries, I will support it, but WHAT ABOUT CUBA? WHY NOT CUBA?
cause its the Kennedy promise stupid!
Posted by: pototo at July 28, 2006 02:55 PM
The three letters that cause high blood pressure in Cubans: JFK.
Posted by: George L. Moneo at July 28, 2006 03:11 PM
No Scott, that was part of the secret Clinton initiative called the War on Aspirin. It was a deal he made with a cabal of Big Pharma to enhance the sale of acetaminophen, naproxen, and ibuprofen.
Posted by: George L. Moneo at July 28, 2006 03:15 PM
"October 1983: Muslim extremists (Hezbollah) blew up the U.S. Marine barracks at the Beirut airport, killing 241 Marines."
If that's not a reason for war, what is one?
Posted by: Eleggua at July 28, 2006 09:39 PM
One of my three major disagreements with Reagan was not going after Hibullah then and there.
Posted by: George L. Moneo at July 28, 2006 10:12 PM
Well, then, why not "remember the gipper" and go after them now?
Posted by: Patricio Texidor at July 29, 2006 10:55 AM
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