have a risk here, and we have a risk there and say that we should just chase them with permanent u.s. military intervention in perpetuity. but that simply is not a strategy. tim kudo, i was thinking today about 1983, and i m sure as all marines think about, when the marine barracks in beirut was blown up by a terrorist, 231 american deaths, i think 20 or so marines in that group, and president reagan did absolutely nothing other than completely retreat and remove all marines from harm s way. compare that to where we are tonight. yeah, so my old unit was first battalion 8th marines which is one of the units on the ground in kabul right now, may even be the unit that took the casualties today, and we were that unit in beirut.