It seems likely that avoiding another Marine barracks bombing would have been more on Weinberger's mind, since that had occurred the previous year and it hadn't been clear what we were doing in Lebanon."
Rather than defeat the Soviet Union, you wanted to begin getting mired in the Middle East at the end of 1983?
I don't know how you interpreted my comment that way. It's too bad that it took such a terrible loss in Beirut to make it clear that we were getting mired in the Middle East.