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Speaker 1: The bombing of the marine barracks sent a shockwave through
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Speaker 1: the entirety of the West, certainly America and the armed
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Speaker 1: forces back in eighty three, and it was a hesbal
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Speaker 1: operation in many ways, the beginning of the War on terror.
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Speaker 2: That's right. You had two hundred and twenty marines, eighteen sailors,
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Speaker 2: three soldiers killed that day. There were others killed between
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Speaker 2: an embassy bombing which happened in April nineteen eighty three.
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Speaker 2: Both both people killed throughout that summer fall until October
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Speaker 2: twenty third. And what it did, though, is it taught
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Speaker 2: Iran that terrorism works, and it worked by using proxies.
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Speaker 1: And really Iran set the rules for.
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Speaker 2: The war on Terror back then, and it's the model
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Speaker 2: and the paradigm that we've been essentially adhering to ever since.
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Speaker 2: So it's important to note that Iran set these rules
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Speaker 2: all the way back then, and it was the largest
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Speaker 2: non nuclear explosion on record at that time in history,
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Speaker 2: and it is heartbreaking obviously,