Judith Miller writes at City Journal how twenty-six years after the Beirut bombing, the struggle against militant Islam continues.
… That night, I interviewed a Marine who had been guarding the entry post and who remembered only one thing about the driver of the Mercedes that had rammed through the compound’s concrete barriers: the young man with a beard, who turned out to be a 24-year-old Shiite Muslim, was smiling.
On October 23, 1983, 241 Marines, sailors, and soldiers died in the first mass suicide bombing attack—the largest single-day loss of life for Americans overseas since World War II. Thus began the age of asymmetrical mass suicide terrorism by militant Islamists against the Great Satan and our Muslim and non-Muslim allies. It was the de facto start of a war that continued with the smiling martyrs of 9/11—a war that of course continues to this day.
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