Andrew Lee Butters writes in TIME/blog, here"....Nor would it be much use in the shadow war of terror attacks against Lebanon's pro-American politicians. Perhaps in the wake of another assassination, the Cole could launch missile strikes against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al Assad, which the US blames for these attacks. But does the US public really want to get directly involved in yet another regional conflict with no end in sight?
......This may sound wildly paranoid, but it has happened before. When the US sent troops to Lebanon in the 1980's to help extricate Israel from its disastrous invasion, the US got sucked into the Lebanese Civil war, with spectacularly deadly results...."
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Frank Lamb doesn't seem to be afraid of being abducted though:
http://www.counterpunch.org/lamb03012008.html
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