Today is the 40th anniversary of the Beirut Barracks Bombing, a direct attack by Iranian proxies on United States forces. Not only did the United States fail to defend its forces, it failed to retaliate against the attackers. It is no exaggeration to suggest that this failure enabled decades of Islamic terrorism which today serve as a trigger for wider war in the Middle East. 

To mark this somber day, I am posting an extremely informative inside account of these events published in 2008. It is by the deputy chief of naval operations at the time, the late, great James A. "Ace" Lyons, who would rise to become admiral and commander of the Pacific Fleet. Given the recent news -- buried, sandbagged and muffled -- of Iranian influence at high levels inside the Biden regime, we can see the direction in which this and subsequent failures to act led our nation. 

LYONS: Grim...

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As I told REELTalk host Audrey Russo, the only good thing about bad news is getting to talk about it with her in our monthly interview. Which is here, and it's all about what is happening in Israel and the wider world.

The Kibbutzim/Concert Massacres of October 7 are not an October Surprise but an October Shock Wave -- a continuous stream of shock waves that have reset the world. Suddenly -- but before the body parts of 1,350 innocents slaughtered in Israel by Hamas terrorists could be gathered by ZAKA -- our streets and campuses and internet platforms were flooded with rivers of Jew Hatred masquerading as a historical debate over the very existence of the modern state of Israel, now 75 years old. Suddenly, the 1973 Yom Kippur War was back. Suddenly, the Palestinian "nation," which never was, was back, too. So was "devilry" of "Zionism" -- not that it ever went away. Suddenly, no other disaster, no other crime has the same weight, the same right to exist, if you will, anymore. Bravo, controllers behind the curtain. It is as if the people of the world have been reimagined as pulsating ganglia, emitting cries of "Stand with Israel" or "Israelis Are War Criminals"; "Kill Hamas" or "I'll Never Support Israel Again." We are all of us nearly completely fried from having Hamas's video trophies of murder and blood burned into our brains, and are thus unable to see what is really happening. As usual, you might say, only worse.

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Finally, something normal, something that makes sense, to come out of Israel in the wake of the still- unexplained destruction of 1200 innocent Israeli men, women and children by an incursion of what is, to date, believed to have been an army of 2,000 Hamas terrorists last weekend. In the tweet above, we see enraged Israeli citizens, betrayed Israeli citizens, protesting what was done to them, and not only by Hamas terrorists. The image was taken outside the Defense Ministry. In the injury to the outrage category, earlier in the morning, a truck carrying concrete barriers of fortification, presumably to guard against the protestors, had appeared outside the ministry before, it is reported, driving off without placing the barriers. 

Maybe the government realized that fortifying the Defense Ministry after...

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