For those of you who support 45 on Syria, Reagan did it too: Why Trump’s Right on Syria

https://theresurgent.com/2019/10/08/why-trumps-right-on-syria/


In late October, 1983, at the height of the Lebanese civil war, a truck with 12,000 pounds of explosives detonated at the Marine barracks in Beirut.
241 U.S. soldiers were killed.
Ronald Reagan wasn’t sure what to do. Should the U.S. maintain its U.N.-backed presence in the conflict? For several months, he deliberated as the conflict raged.
In February of 1984, he decided to withdraw our troops from Lebanon. This acknowledgment, that America had little strategic interest in remaining in the conflict, was rare for a U.S. president.
Of course, Reagan’s common sense does not comport with the pro-intervention tilt of hawks like John Bolton, who wrote in a 2011 Los Angeles Times editorial that the Lebanon withdrawal was “a rare failure of will by then-President Reagan.” Please.