You mean the way Reagan avenged the murder of our Marines in Lebanon? That Reagan?
Give it a rest with this line of Bush-excusing logic. Reagan was busy fighting and winning the Cold War, the Third World War, and he didn't have time to get caught up in a distraction in a turd world s$#thole called Lebanon. It was the right decision to withdraw. Europe and strategic nuclear weapons were the game then. After 9-11, it was a different game, and the same logic the Reagan applied to the cold war would have had him fighting this war much differently than "ROP" Bush.
Reagan was in a lose-lose situation. By responding, he'd be endangering innocent civilians' lives. Plus he had the Dem Congress harping on him to pull out or risk losing funding (like the Rats cut funding for Vietnam).
Reagan's pull-out was not the same as Xlinton cutting and running from Somalia. It just made sense from a more military and PR standpoint.