H2O_MAN wrote:mysteryman wrote:Roxxxanne wrote:real life wrote:
Carter was helpless when our embassy was seized.
Reagan was fairly effective in dealing with Qaddafi.
LOL Reagan??? Are we talking about the same Reagan who cut and ran and DID NOTHING when over 200 MArines were killed? Oh excuse me, he invaded Grenada!
Quote:Bush Jr has systematically taken down the Taliban, Saddam, and most of the leadership of al Qaeda.
What planet did he do this on?
You apparently have forgotten the USAF bombing raid on Libya, after Quaddafi attacked a US destroyer in the gulf of Sidra.
After that, Quaddafi kept his head down and his mouth shut.[/b]
As for the bombing of the USMC barracks in Lebanon, you are correct.
EVERY marine I know wanted to turn Lebanon upside down and shake it till we found who was responsible.
Quit using logic & facts, it only confuses them.
I guess "water on the breain" didn't notice that MM admitted I was correct and BTW I hadn't forgotten anything,I didn't dispute Reagan's response to Libya.
Facts: Wikepedia
U.S. President Ronald Reagan called the attack a "despicable act" and pledged to keep a military force in Lebanon. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, who had privately advised the administration against ever having stationed U.S. Marines in Lebanon,[9] said there would be no change in the U.S.'s Lebanon policy. On October 24 French President François Mitterrand visited the French bomb site. It was not an official visit, and he only stayed for a few hours, but he did declare: "We will stay." U.S. Vice President George Bush toured the Marine bombing site on October 26 and said the U.S. "would not be cowed by terrorists."
In retaliation for the attacks, France launched an air strike in the Beqaa Valley against alleged Islamic Revolutionary Guards positions. President Reagan assembled his national security team and planned to target the Sheik Abdullah barracks in Baalbek, Lebanon, which housed Iranian Revolutionary Guards believed to be training Hezbollah fighters.[10] Defense Secretary Weinberger lobbied successfully against the mission, because he was not certain that Iran was to blame for the attacks.[9]
Besides a few shellings, there was no serious retaliation for the Beirut bombing from the Americans. In December 1983, U.S. aircraft attacked Syrian targets in Lebanon, but this was in response to Syrian missile attacks on planes, not the barracks bombing.
In the meantime, the attack gave a boost to the growth of the Shi'ite organization Hezbollah. Hezbollah denied involvement in the attacks but was seen by Lebanese as involved nonetheless as it praised the "two martyr mujahidin" who "set out to inflict upon the U.S. Administration an utter defeat not experienced since Vietnam ..."[11] Hezbollah was now seen by many as "the spearhead of the sacred Muslim struggle against foreign occupation".
How is Obama the best Presidential candidate to protect this country and our allies against Islamic