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I am currently working on a new bio of RR. I had already done a lot of research on Lebanon for my book 'Seven Events that Made America America,' and it is interesting that RR was the FIRST president to understand the threat of radical Islam. . . but not at first.

Right after the bombing, he still spoke of the terrorist activities in terms of Cold War/nationalistic/big power dynamics. But within three years his rhetoric began to change and he started to see the Islamofascist threat as unique and quite apart from traditional threats.

6 posted on 10/17/2015 7:31:16 AM PDT by LS (YSess"Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))

8 posted on 10/17/2015 7:37:19 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)

Did you find out anything important about the lack of response to the bombing?