Quote Originally Posted by jmm99 View Post
re: their man in Beirut - punch this.
You would think Jeff Stein would have a subject for his next blog post from this:
Retired Adm. Lyons maintained that he could have destroyed the terrorists at a hideout U.S. intelligence had pinpointed, but he was outmaneuvered by others in the cabinet of President Ronald Reagan.

"I was going to take them apart," Lyons said, "but the secretary of defense," Caspar Weinberger, "sabotaged it."