Four American Marines Reportedly Killed in Kabul

 Will four be enough for us to react wisely like the Beirut barrack attacks? ...

Or will the American public and the press pushing this glorious war against terrorism need more than four to convince them of the costs of continuing this folly any further?  #PrayingWeEvacuateAllTroopsNowAndLetPrivateNegotiationsAndDiplomacy"Rescue"RemainingAmericansInAfghanistan

Early on a Sunday morning, October 23, 1983, two truck bombs struck buildings in Beirut, Lebanon, housing American and French service members of the Multinational Force in Lebanon (MNF), a military peacekeeping operation during the Lebanese Civil War. The attack killed 307 people: 241 U.S. and 58 French military personnel, six civilians, and two attackers.

The first suicide bomber detonated a truck bomb at the building serving as a barracks for the 1st Battalion 8th Marines (Battalion Landing Team – BLT 1/8) of the 2nd Marine Division, killing 220 Marines, 18 sailors and 3 soldiers, making this incident the deadliest single-day death toll for the United States Marine Corps since the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II and the deadliest single-day death toll for the United States Armed Forces since the first day of the Tet Offensive in the Vietnam War. Another 128 Americans were wounded in the blast; 13 later died of their injuries, and they are counted among the number who died.

The attacks eventually led to the withdrawal of the international peacekeeping force from Lebanon, where they had been stationed following the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) withdrawal in the aftermath of Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon.

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ADDED:  The death count of Marines and soldiers is reportedly up to 10 now.  I hope the retired veterans will stop bleating already about what they/we "owe" their friends/allies/translators who allegedly saved their lives once upon a wartime, and start thinking of the current men and women deployed and what the military brotherhood owes them.  (Hint?  It's not the rescue of vacationing Americans or your Afghan war buddies...  They owe it to themselves, and each other, to survive themselves and come home in one piece.  How's that for a revised and do-able mission statement?)