So you think the Navy should stay tied up in American harbors?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Tom_explosion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_Harbor_attack
That's true, he would close all overseas bases, including all in the middle east, so by definition attacks on our forces in the mideast and elsewhere would end. As to Pearl Harbor, he's already minimized 9/11 as only a month of highway deaths. Pearl Harbor was only a month of 1941 deaths.
Or did he say...
Middle Eastern politics are insane and we have no right to sacrifice our soldiers by putting them between these barbaric factions.
He left Lebanon and withdrew ALL our troops.
period.
So do you consider Reagan to have been a cut and run coward or do you consider him to be a realist?