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April 20, 2005
Marines vs. Jihadis...You Know The Rest
The Ten O'Clock Scholar relates yet another example of the stellar performance of our combat troops. From a USA Today article about a dual truck bomb attack on a US outpost:
From his tower lookout post on the Iraqi-Syrian border, Marine Lance Cpl. Joshua Butler last week helped stop two suicide car bombers who were on a mission to kill hundreds of Marines here and strike a symbolic victory for the insurgency.
The base commander at Camp Gannon, [...] credits Butler with preventing massive deaths here.
"Butler — that day, that Marine — that's the critical error the insurgents made," Capt. Frank Diorio says. "They thought they could keep the Marines' heads down. But he gets back up."
Ten O'Clock Scholar goes on to wonder if Syria perhaps aided the attackers. I wonder, too--and I agree wholeheartedly with his remedy.
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