Another Colin Powell's assessment of USS New Jersey's *presence* off Beirut in 1983-84 :
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But suddenly someone started killing those Marines and then the Marines fired back and then political officials said "Let's shoot battleship shells at them." This wasn't military judgement, this was a political judgement, and guess what, we made people very, very mad that they were being shot at, and they knew how to respond....
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