Posted on 10/17/2015 7:16:28 AM PDT by GonzoII
THAT was a leader. Everyone else since is a lightweight by comparison.
RR wasn’t thinking “response.” He was absorbed by the question of whether to leave the troops in. All his advisers, except Weinberger, wanted to stay, Cap adamant they had no mission. The Iowa ? did shell some “bases,” but Reagan was viewed as weak by Bin Laden in later years for withdrawing. OBL talked about the “two explosions” meaning the Marine barracks and the French paratrooper barracks.
Calvin Coolidge was the best president ever ridiculed.
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