[LS]

I don’t know. I don’t think it mattered. We were likely at a point where SOME statement had to be made.

For ex., did we REALLY need to go into Grenada? Heck know. What “vital national interest” was at stake at the stupid little island? Some students, who would have been shipped home.

That was Reagan telling Adropov & Breznev, “You think we’re back in Vietnam?”

[Thumper1960]

I think the president will be tested again, soon. One of these agents will want to see if the Tomahawks were a fluke or if the president is going to be a consistent actor on the world stage.

I am somewhat curious about the selection of precise targets of the strikes. I had heard that flights were still taking off from that air base.

That Xi was so quiet afterwards seems to me that he and his government aren't yet able to decode the president and aren't sure how to take him. That is refreshing.