In my last post I asked why President Reagan deserves praise for his inaction when the U.S. Marines were slaughtered in Lebanon. Victor Davis Hansen has the answer: President Reagan does not deserve the praise he has been getting! Here is what Hansen has to say: "And when Americans are butchered, are we to skedaddle, as both Presidents Reagan and Clinton did, from Lebanon and Somalia respectively?
Our present muscular policy - and we also hear this all too infrequently - grew out of just such past bipartisan inaction that led to 3,000 murdered Americans. The truth is that the old way of doing business, rightly or wrongly, was seen by jihadists as encouragement to up the ante with Sept. 11." Dr. Hansen's full article can be found here.
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