I'm sure you have heard the story many times of Osama bin Laden referring to Bill Clinton as a 'Paper Tiger' in reference to the tragedy of Somalia in 1993. That is false. Bin Laden wasn't referring to Bill Clinton or the United States. He was referring to, the American soldier, wrongly of course, but nonetheless, he wasn't referring to Clinton. Here's what he said in an interview with ABC reporter John Miller in a May 1998 hour-long interview at his mountaintop camp in southern Afghanistan;
"After leaving Afghanistan, the Muslim fighters headed for Somalia and prepared for a long battle, thinking that the Americans were like the Russians," bin Laden said. "The youth were surprised at the low morale of the American soldiers and realized more than before that the American soldier was a paper tiger and after a few blows ran in defeat. And America forgot all the hoopla and media propaganda ... about being the world leader and the leader of the New World Order, and after a few blows they forgot about this title and left, dragging their corpses and their shameful defeat."
So, once again, you learn something here on this blog. You have now learned that what you've thought and what you may have even said, isn't true after all. Osama bin Laden did NOT refer to Bill Clinton or the United States as a "Paper Tiger'.
But, if there was a president that showed himself as a 'Paper Tiger', that would be Ronald Reagan when he cut and ran after his dismal failure to protect our
Marines in Beirut, Lebanon in 1983. Yes, as Caspar Weinberger has now come forward and told the nation, not only did Reagan run like a girl from Beirut, but he also refused to protect those 241 Marines in the first place. He failed at that, too.
And, the biggest crime of all, you know, you've read about it here many times before; Reagan turned around a couple of years later and
sold those same Iranian terrorists, Hezbollah, who killed our Marines in Beirut, thousands of TOW missiles!
Aide: Reagan Warned Before Beirut Blast
A former defense secretary for Ronald Reagan says he implored the president to put Marines serving in Beirut in a safer position before terrorists attacked them in 1983, killing 241 servicemen.
"I was not persuasive enough to persuade the president that the Marines were there on an impossible mission," Caspar Weinberger says in an oral history project capturing the views of former Reagan administration officials.
But he said one of his greatest regrets was in failing to overcome the arguments that "'Marines don't cut and run,' and 'We can't leave because we're there'" before the devastating suicide attack on the lightly armed force.
"They had no mission but to sit at the airport, which is just like sitting in a bull's-eye," Weinberger said. "I begged the president at least to pull them back and put them back on their transports as a more defensible position."
I'm sure you have heard the story many times of Osama bin Laden referring to Bill Clinton as a 'Paper Tiger' in reference to the tragedy of Somalia in 1993. That is false. Bin Laden wasn't referring to Bill Clinton or the United States. He was referring to, the American soldier, wrongly of course, but nonetheless, he wasn't referring to Clinton. Here's what he said in an interview with ABC reporter John Miller in a May 1998 hour-long interview at his mountaintop camp in southern Afghanistan;
"After leaving Afghanistan, the Muslim fighters headed for Somalia and prepared for a long battle, thinking that the Americans were like the Russians," bin Laden said. "The youth were surprised at the low morale of the American soldiers and realized more than before that the American soldier was a paper tiger and after a few blows ran in defeat. And America forgot all the hoopla and media propaganda ... about being the world leader and the leader of the New World Order, and after a few blows they forgot about this title and left, dragging their corpses and their shameful defeat."
So, once again, you learn something here on this blog. You have now learned that what you've thought and what you may have even said, isn't true after all. Osama bin Laden did NOT refer to Bill Clinton or the United States as a "Paper Tiger'.
But, if there was a president that showed himself as a 'Paper Tiger', that would be Ronald Reagan when he cut and ran after his dismal failure to protect our Marines in Beirut, Lebanon in 1983. Yes, as Caspar Weinberger has now come forward and told the nation, not only did Reagan run like a girl from Beirut, but he also refused to protect those 241 Marines in the first place. He failed at that, too.
And, the biggest crime of all, you know, you've read about it here many times before; Reagan turned around a couple of years later and sold those same Iranian terrorists, Hezbollah, who killed our Marines in Beirut, thousands of TOW missiles!
