Reagan was by no means a pacifist. But he didn’t believe in unnecessary wars — unlike McCain and Bush. In fact, Reagan didn’t get us into any wars. The Grenada rescue operation wasn’t a war. Nobody fired back and it was over in one day. If you call that a war, I’ll spring for a dictionary because you need it.
Nobody believes in unnecessary wars, where do you guys come up with this nonsense.
The Grenada invasion conquered a country, and you thinking that it was captured without a shot and was to rescue medical students at risk, shows how ignorant you are about the time, you sound like a young libertarian.
Reagan broke the Soviets because they were terrified of him, he was clearly ready to go all the way, and he put us in the face of the Soviets, invading Grenada was a big part of that.
You would not have approved of what we were doing in Europe at the time, nor Africa, nor the Middle East, nor Latin America, the pace and level of push was extraordinary, and somewhat frightening, even American civilians were preparing for war.
Reagan wasn’t playing games.