25 Years Later: The Marine Barracks Bombing Remembered

Twenty five years ago today, Hizbullah, the Islamic terrorist group, conducted two suicide bombings within a matter of minutes of each other. As the dust settled, the Marine Barracks were decimated and 241 US Marines, soldiers, and sailors were dead. This is a partial list of names of those Marines, soldiers, and sailors killed, who are interred at Arlington National Cemetery.

58 French soldiers were also killed.

Hizbullah has never been held accountable for their heinous actions against the US and French peacekeepers who were in Lebanon to try and restore peace to a country wracked by civil war, fighting between Israel and the PLO, and Syrian machinations. Iran, as Hizbullah's backers, have never been held accountable for those actions. The US forces were there to attempt to keep the peace, and the ignominious withdrawal was a low point of the Reagan Administration, as the Marines never did get to impose their firepower on the terrorists who killed so many of their brothers-in-arms.

Hizbullah had more US blood on its hands than any other Islamic terror group until al Qaeda carried out the heinous attacks on September 11, 2001. Hizbullah still poses a mortal threat to US forces, especially as it acts as a proxy for Iran and that state backing is a serious threat to US interests in the Middle East and beyond.

Never forget.

We are still living with the repercussions of that terrorist attack. The attack, and the US failure to respond forcefully, inspired al Qaeda to believe that the US power was waning.




Michelle Malkin has much more.