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To: Road Walker who wrote (375647)	4/1/2008 11:13:27 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1574709

Is that the same Ronald that cut and run from Lebanon after a terror attack on our base? Without so much as a feeble attempt at retribution? I believe Reagan, were he alive today, would clearly reflect on it as a mistake. We WERE weak; Carter had literally destroyed our CIA, and our military, in general, was in bad shape. But Reagan was influenced by Weinberger to pull our marines out the next year, as did France and Italy. It is indisputable that this action emboldened terrorists to believe that they could influence American foreign policy via terrorism. So, why in hell to the liberals want to pull out of Iraq now? How freaking stupid are we not to learn from our mistakes? But Reagan's strength as a president is indisputable. He single-handedly brought down the biggest threat the world had ever known -- that of the Soviet Union and the possibility of an unwinnable nuclear war. And he did it by applying the strength of the United States, not by cutting and running as you say. It is hard to blame Reagan for not reacting to the bombing. Whom should he react against? Terrorism in that sense was in its infancy and we did not know who did it -- while Iran was suspected, without a CIA we could not know it convincingly.