On Jan 27, 6:18=A0am, The Horny Goat wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:17:38 -0800 (PST), Insane Ranter
>
> wrote:
> >What if instead of the US embassy the students take over the embassy
> >of the USSR?
>
> About the same as when jihadis seized Soviet personnel in Beirut -
> Spetsnaz troops got sent in with the most violence possible.
>
This is a much repeated story that seems to lack any basis in fact,
and weirdly popular among very right-wing Americans who seem to
display an odd envy for what they imagine to have been Soviet methods.
WI there really was a Soviet military intervention in 70s/80s Lebanon? |
