From: Monte Davis 

James Adams  wrote:

>>  Ditto for Reagan and the Marines in Lebanon in
>> 1983.
>
>Disagree there.  The Marines never should have been in Lebanon.

I don't have a conviction either way -- but given that they were there,
pulling out after the bombing *did* say "bomb a barracks and we're
gone."

I'm well aware that taken to the limit, this could mean no end to
*any* commitment of troops... it's a judgment call.

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