[DoughtyOne]

Within a short period we pulled all our troops out of Lebanon. He may have provided a reason, but I don’t recall what it was.

[mnehring]

In Reagan Diaries, he discusses how Lebanon was a proxy war against the Soviet backed Syrians, and while he regretted leaving, he was basically making a strategic decision where to take on the proxy war against he Soviets. The biggest concern Reagan laid out was that the Lebanese were not willing to fight with us against the Soviet backed Syrians, they basically laid down their arms.

Remember, the bombing of the embassy in Beirut happened the night before we invaded Grenada. We were fighting proxy wars against the Soviets on several fronts.