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Originally Posted by t walgamuth
Pish. It takes just as much courage to hold back when aroused to be sure of doing the right thing.
I read in the paper this morning that it is the marines job to protect the embassy personell. All non guard personell had been evacuated I believe. What good is it to kill a couple of hundred wall scaling flag stealing demonstrators when there are thousands more to keep coming until the embassy was overrun and our marines killed?
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Doing the right thing is taking out the sorry bastards that kills an innocent ambassador and taking out as many as possible.
That's not the way a marine is taught to think. If they are turned loose to do what they are supposed to do, when they are being over run, their mission changes to taking out as many of the bastards as possible before they're killed themselves.
All through history there have been US Marines in those situations.
Thanks for correcting me on the responsibility of the embassy security. It seems as if I read what I stated a long time ago, but I could easily be mistaken.