Every President meets different circumstances.
Reagan did send troops to Lebanon.
Reagan did invade Grenada. Call is what you wish but it was nation building. Being a tiny nation, it just took hours.
He also helped "nation build" Nicaragua.
And the greatest Nation building of all time so, he helped to rebuild Russia from the Soviet Union.
Different time. Different place. Different methods. But it was all to build nations into something we prefer.
Mere presence of troops is not nation-building.
Reagan did invade Grenada. Call is what you wish but it was nation building. Being a tiny nation, it just took hours.
He also helped "nation build" Nicaragua.
Nonsense, and nonsense. Fighting Communist infiltrators was not nation-building ... and few if any combat troops ever went to Nicaragua.
And the greatest Nation building of all time so, he helped to rebuild Russia from the Soviet Union.
Now that's just ridiculous. Bottling up Communism's expansion until it collapsed of its internal contradictions was in no way, shape, or form nation-building.
These paleoconservatives threatened to leave the Party when Reagan signed the SALT agreements. Imagine if there was a FR then?? He would have been lynched.
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