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marking the anniversary, 29 years to the day since a truck bomb was driven up to the u.s. marine barracks in beirut, lebanon, killing 241 americans. a lot of people would say little has changed in that region in the intervening 29 years. trace: and joining us now, visiting fellow from the center for strategic and international studies, specializing in security and politics in the middle east and north africa and he also recently returned from lebanon. as you watch this, sir, do you get the feeling that bashar al-assad is getting better at this? he watched what happened in egypt and libya and he is dragging this thing out. guest: it is clear that president assad has learned all of the best lessons of practices from the crisis in egypt, libya and tunisia.

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