Lebanese Applaud As Terrorist Base Gets Shelled

[Bill3000]

Speaking of which, one of those countries has to rename their Tripoli. Lebanon or Libya, one of them has to...its just too confusing.

The coast of Libya has been known as Tripolitania for over a millenia, so it would have to be Lebanon.

 

[mrgenius]

Actually in Arabic Tripoli is Troblos in Lebanon, and also Troblos in vernacular in Libya, but more correctly it is Tarabulus al Gharb (according to wikipedia).
So maybe we should be more specific when we transliterate them.

 

[boarder]

Sounds like its still going on and affecting other areas of Lebanon, hope its not the start of something big, I doubt it is but you never know...

 

[skadistic]

Sounds like its still going on and affecting other areas of Lebanon, hope its not the start of something big, I doubt it is but you never know...

I hope it is the start of something big. Big like the Lebanese taking back their land from terrorists. They got rid of most of Syria's forces now all thats left are Syria's funded terrorist and other terrorist factions. I hope it goes so far that hezbola is destroyed and removed from the government.

 

[Red Door]

Well if one must be renamed I vote for the one that isn't the one mentioned in the Marine Corp song.

You mean the one that was written before the Marine Corps before they got to Tripoli.

 

[skadistic]

You mean the one that was written before the Marine Corps before they got to Tripoli.

I'm sorry what? Are you implying that the lyrics were written before the marines were established or that it was written before the Barbery wars? What are you trying to say?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Marine_Corps

Spoiler :

The United States Marine Corps traces its institutional roots to the Continental Marines of the American Revolutionary War, formed at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by a resolution of the Continental Congress on November 10, 1775, a date regarded and celebrated as the birthday of the Marine Corps. At the end of the American Revolution in 1783, both the Continental Navy and Continental Marines were disbanded, and although individual Marines were enlisted for the few American naval vessels left, the institution itself would not be resurrected until 1798. In preparation for the Naval War with France, Congress created the United States Navy and Marine Corps.[15] The U.S. Marines' most famous action of this period occurred during the First Barbary War (1801–1805), when William Eaton and First Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon led seven Marines and 300 Arab and European mercenaries in an effort to capture Tripoli. Though they only reached Derna, the action at Tripoli has been immortalized in the Marines' hymn and the Mameluke Sword carried by Marine officers.[16]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marines'_hymn

Spoiler :

The Marines' Hymn is the official hymn of the United States Marine Corps. It is the oldest official song in the U.S. Armed Forces.[1] The song has an obscure origin—the words date from the 19th century, but no one knows the author. The music is from the Gendarmes' Duet from the opera Geneviève de Brabant by Jacques Offenbach, which had its début in Paris in 1859. The Marine Corps secured a copyright on the song on August 19, 1919, but it is now in the public domain.

The initial verse is "From the Halls of Montezuma to the Shores of Tripoli". The Montezuma phrase refers to the Battle of Chapultepec. The Tripoli phrase refers to actions during the First Barbary War and the Battle of Derna.

Now I did some math and the song if written in the 19th centery refers to a battle from 1805 was it written in those 4 years before the battle happened? Was it written by a seer?

 

[Oerdin]

For the third time, this is a city of a high majority of Suuni Muslims.

Jesus Christ on a stick. You can't possibly be so dense as to confuse where I said "country" with city.