If I recall correctly,
In 1983 a truck containing a gigantic amount of TNT was driven into the Marine barracks in Beirut, killing 241 marines, the largest loss of Marines since Iwo Jima in WWII.
The Israelis had warned the Americans that their security was wholly inadequate, but of course, who’s listening???
Here’s the point: Ronald Reagan was President and thus, could do no wrong. He announced the tragedy, promptly withdrew the remains troops from Lebanon and it was barely mentioned thereafter by the vast number of the so-called Liberal Media.
If a Democrat had been in office when this occurred, they would have hung the blame on him in perpetuity, they’d still be talking about it today. Same with the 9/11 catastrophe: can you picture what would have happened in the country and in the media if, say, Mike Dukakis or Walter Mondale were in the White House? Howard Dean was eliminated from contention due to an enhanced “scream”, Dukakis for wearing a tank uniform, Kerry was accused of the opposite of what he was awarded medals for, Muskie for “crying” when a false newspaper report was published, Kamala for her “laugh”, and on and on.
We are now faced with a signal moment, or series of moments, leading up to the midterms, and need to pull out all stops. All. Stops. Period. Nothing is out of bounds. It’s time to get personal and ugly, you know why? Because it works, that’s why. Don’t like it? I’ll say “Hi” to you in the boxcar on the way to the Concentration Camp.
Think it can’t happen? Tell that to those people standing behind Kristy Noem in that infamous photograph.
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Maybe you'll be surprised to find out that he's ready to talk about it.
I say this because I have older friends who were children during and after WWII, and came to the US as immigrants. For many years they couldn't or wouldn't talk about their war-time experiences. But now they're almost 90 and they really need to talk, and maybe their own children don't want to hear about it.
