[Zhang Fei]

Does anyone even know what compelling U.S. interest was at stake in Lebanon back in the 1980s?

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We were UN peacekeepers, being honest brokers and keeping Israel and the PLO, which had ensconced itself in Lebanon after being forced out of Jordan, apart. When Hezbollah turned 200+ Marines into hamburger, they became our enemy. That’s not even counting their torture and murder of William F. Buckley, the local CIA station chief and Embassy employee with full diplomatic immunity and the bombing of the US Embassy in Lebanon.

[Alberta's Child]

As I read through the history of Hezbollah, the thing that really stood out to me is the similarities between them and a group like the Irish Republican Army that became somewhat more “respectable” after it established a political arm and became a serious political player:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hezbollah

[Krosan]

I just read the wikipedia page of that less known Mr. Buckley. This is just horrible! 15 months of torture.