For the first time since the end of the Vietnam War, the U.S. Army, the No. | imperialist army in the world, is using its fire power to defend another puppet regime.
In the worst tradition of gunboat diplomacy, the U.S. Navy has begun shelling the positions of fighters opposed to the reactionary Phalangist regime of Amin Gemayel in Lebanon, a regime that is obviously remote-controlled from Washington.
What is more, the airplanes carried by the U.S. Sixth Fleet are flying over these positions also threatening to intervene. At the same time, 2,000 Marines are ready to land to join the 1,200 U.S. soldiers already lined up alongside Gemayel’s troops.
In all these moves, the U.S. has had the active collaboration of the other imperialist powers. The French, Italian, and British soldiers of the Multinational Force sent to back up the Gemayel regime are dividing up the job on the ground with the U.S. soldiers. French and British planes are flying sorties through Lebanese skies, alongside the U.S. Air Force. In this situation, it is an urgent task for antiimperialist militants throughout the world to mobilize to force the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of imperialist troops from Lebanon.
Imperialist troops out of Lebanon!