Sorry, but Reagan hit the Colonel in Libya because he killed several U.S. soldiers in a bombing in a German pub. I know. I was in the administation at the time. And the reason Reagan didn't strike back after our Marines were killed by car boms in Lebanon is because he wasn't exactly sure where or how to hit them. It's becoming an urban myth that he just turned tail and ran, which is false. It doesn't even make any sense. Reagan was never of such a mind in anything he did.
Oops ... bombs. And, yes, Buchanan lost it a long time ago. He has Hoerge McGovern's foreign policy, John Sweeney's dometic policy, and Hugy Long's delivery.