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President Reagan should set a goal for himself in Lebanon [Dec. 19]. If he wants to back the Gemayel government in the hope that it can bring peace to Lebanon, then our forces will be there forever. If he wants to provoke Syria into a war with the U.S., the President need only continue on his present course. After the latest clashes with the Syrians, the Bekaa Valley and the Gulf of Tonkin seem similar...
...Robert L. J. Long,- will not be easily shrugged off. In effect, the report concluded that the Marines are engaged in a Mission Impossible. On one hand, they are unable to pose as neutral peace-keepers because the U.S. has sided militarily with the rickety central government of Amin Gemayel. On the other, they are too few in number (1,800) and too restricted in their operations (never firing unless fired upon) to be much of a military threat to the antigovernment factions...
Ranging somewhat fearlessly into political rather than strictly military matters, the report implicitly challenged the Administration's decision to gamble so heavily on the Gemayel government. Noting that both President Gemayel and General Ibrahim Tannous, commander of the Lebanese armed forces, are Maronite Christians hated by other religious factions, the commission declared, "Whatever their true intentions may be concerning the future of Lebanon, they are caught in the same tangled web of distrust, misunderstanding, malevolence, conspiracy and betrayal that has brought Lebanon to political bankruptcy and ruin...
...troops 17 miles south of Beirut. Since then, 39 Israelis have fallen victim to violence in southern Lebanon. Several weeks ago, the Israelis talked about pulling back ten to 15 more miles, to the Zahrani River, but U.S. officials persuaded them to delay the move at Lebanese President Amin Gemayel's request. Nonetheless, over the weekend the Israelis did go so far as to close down three crossing points linking northern and southern Lebanon...
...Administration hopes to buy time for more diplomatic efforts to get Gemayel and the opposing factions to join in a broadened central government. The Administration apparently will try to ease the pull-out pressure at home by redeploying the Marines to less vulnerable positions. One of the main options now under review at the White House is a proposal to station the Marines along the coastal highway between the Beirut airport and Sidon. That would disperse them over a wider area, distancing them from the high ground from which they were so effectively shelled. In the meantime, the Marines...