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To: Road Walker who wrote (388812)	6/5/2008 12:49:13 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1573683

Even Reagan was part of the UN Security Council. Bush would have stayed, and that's your benchmark. I don't know what Bush might have done and I'm not quite sure how you do know. However, people who look at the situation rationally will consider that it was a different time and there really wasn't any way for Reagan to have known that we would be facing the kinds of threats we do today (e.g., AQ) or that Hamas/Hezbollah would develop as they have, etc. It was clearly a mistake not to have stayed and fought it out, and Reagan obviously realized it later on -- but one cannot reasonably compare what happened in 1980 with what's happening now, 20 or 30 years later; the entire terrorism environment is different today. Of course, had Reagan chosen the other route, the entire Left, INCLUDING YOU, would have bashed him all the way along.