we're the finest ever seen; And we glory in the title, Of United States Marines,"the 1929 change got a bit more specific about just what the Marines did. "First to fight for right and freedom And to keep our honor clean;
The U.S. decision to send 14,000 marines to Lebanon during the civil war of 1958 exasperated Lebanese peoples. The American military intervention, as a result, contributed to a cultural process in which many Lebanese began to imagine the United States as an "imperial" force, inheriting the ...
In 1958, Eisenhower authorized Operation Blue Bat, an invasion of 14,000 US troops in the ongoing civil war in Lebanon. This was the first application of the Eisenhower Doctrine under which the U.S. announced that it would intervene to protect regimes it considered threatened by international ...
(1981–89); he implored the president to withdraw U.S. marines from Lebanon in 1984 and criticized him sharply during theIran-Contra Affairin 1986. After Pres.George H.W. Bush(1989–93) signed into law theClean Air Act(1990), which threatened the livelihood of coal miners in his home ...