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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Reagan left Beirut real quick, never to return. Interventionist lesson learned the hard way.


75 posted on 05/18/2024 4:25:39 PM PDT by scan_complete
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To: scan_complete
Reagan left Beirut real quick, never to return.

Which, acknowledging the clarity of 20-20 hindsight, was a mistake.

87 posted on 05/18/2024 4:32:53 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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“”””Reagan left Beirut real quick, never to return. Interventionist lesson learned the hard way.””””

When that bomb went off Reagan had already launched the invasion of Grenada, it was already started.


88 posted on 05/18/2024 4:33:29 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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