We’ll put it this way. I don’t believe the Iraqi war would have been necessary under Reagan. No way would Saddam have risked crossing Reagan and incurring Old Testament retribution. If he had, he’d have been dead back in ‘91. Game over.
I also don’t think 9/11 happens under Reagan. Bin Laden would have been taken out cleanly and surgically long before then. If by some freak, Bin Laden weren’t taken out and 9/11 had still happened, Afghanistan would have been bombed from the bronze age back into the stone age, and the conflict would have been over in a matter of 2-3 years. I also believe the UAE would have suffered some serious repercussions for their role in the affair.
JMO of course, but Reagan would not have pussyfooted around the way his successors have.
I believe that Afghanistan is currently in the stone age.
Bombing the heck out of them would have generated enough shrapnel that enterprising Afghanis could have used to advance their civilization into a bronze, or even iron age.
No Reagan would have only been in office for 8 months, not since 1991, bombing in Afghanistan is evidently useless, and this isn’t a movie where we just go kill Bin Laden, it took ten years to find him and kill him, besides, killing Bin Laden was only a formality, Islam survives.
GW was not pussy footing around, he earns his place in the history books for being war aggressive.