Thirty years ago this week, President Ronald Reagan made perhaps the most purposeful and consequential foreign-policy decision of his presidency. Though he never said so explicitly, he ended America’s military commitment to a strategic mistake that was peripheral to America’s interests. Three-and-a-half months after the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut that killed 241 U.S. military personnel — and after repeatedly pledging not to do so — Reagan ordered the withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Lebanon. As Gen. Colin Powell later aptly summarized this military misadventure: “Beirut wasn’t sensible and it never did serve a purpose. It was goofy from the beginning.”
Kurtass Premium Member almost 3 years ago
When my son and daughter turned 20, they had jobs and fend for themselves. We have been in Afghanistan 20 years, time for them to fend for themselves.
knutdl almost 3 years ago
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-53390108 (or is it out of date?)
I C U almost 3 years ago
Ronnie Ragun tried and failed to ‘fix’ Lebanon.
FEBRUARY 7, 2014
Thirty years ago this week, President Ronald Reagan made perhaps the most purposeful and consequential foreign-policy decision of his presidency. Though he never said so explicitly, he ended America’s military commitment to a strategic mistake that was peripheral to America’s interests. Three-and-a-half months after the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut that killed 241 U.S. military personnel — and after repeatedly pledging not to do so — Reagan ordered the withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Lebanon. As Gen. Colin Powell later aptly summarized this military misadventure: “Beirut wasn’t sensible and it never did serve a purpose. It was goofy from the beginning.”
https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/02/07/when-reagan-cut-and-run/
guyjen2004 Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Radical Islamists ruining another perfectly good country.