Why did Reagan send the Marines into Beirut? | Casual Historian

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0:00 Recap
2:15 IDF Enters West Beirut
5:20 Sabra and Shatila Massacres
12:26 Marines Return to Lebanon
15:55 The Shia and the Birth of Hezbollah
18:00 Sponsor: AtlasVPN
19:32 The Birth of Suicide Bombing
22:26 The Israelis in the South
24:36 Beirut Embassy Bombing
25:31 Peace with Israel?
28:22 The Druze Protest
30:32 Squeezing Beirut
32:17 Shia Insurgency
33:22 US Marine Barracks Bombing
34:23 Israeli Occupation of the South
34:58 Expelling the Americans
37:22 Outro