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2024-03-10 Caribbean-Latin America

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Posted by badanov 2024-03-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ] Top

#1 Are we "sending the Marines" sending the Marines or are we just upgrading embassy security in a country currently undergoing turmoil?
(by 'currently', we mean for the last umpteen decades)

Posted by SteveS 2024-03-10 10:05|| 2024-03-10 10:05|| Front Page Top

#2 another site said they were talking about sending a FAST unit - which are usually platoons.. so not a major undertaking.

Posted by Mercutio 2024-03-10 10:28|| 2024-03-10 10:28|| Front Page Top

#3 Gotta secure that Clinton Server.

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-03-10 10:29|| 2024-03-10 10:29|| Front Page Top

#4 US Marines in Haiti: 1914-1934. Success? Minimal.

Posted by Huputle Cherelet4131 2024-03-10 10:31|| 2024-03-10 10:31|| Front Page Top

#5 Let the French handle it. They're the ones who created the mess. I

Posted by Glineling Sforza2732 2024-03-10 12:02|| 2024-03-10 12:02|| Front Page Top

#6 ^This. Let the FFL handle it. Hell, maybe they can do some recruiting while they are there. "Knows how to use a gun, speaks French, needs to leave their past behind..."

Posted by Secret Master 2024-03-10 12:55|| 2024-03-10 12:55|| Front Page Top

#7 At this point, completely pull out and that includes the embassy and let nature take its course.

Posted by DarthVader 2024-03-10 14:03|| 2024-03-10 14:03|| Front Page Top

#8 Haiti, the Western Hemisphere answer to Somalia, Port-au-Prince like Mogadishu only with better cuisine!

Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-03-10 15:10|| 2024-03-10 15:10|| Front Page Top

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