"Steven L." <sdlitvin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
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> Mike Roberts wrote:
>>
>> Reagan had a much smarter foreign policy than
>> Bush's "Foreign Policy Dream Team".
>
> Reagan believed in "Peace through strength."
Reagan believed in ignoring terrorism and
sup****ting dictators.
April 18, 1983 Bombing of U.S. Embassy in Beirut
Reagan response: none
Sept 1983 - KAL 007 shot down, 290 civilians killed.
Reagan response: None.
Oct. 23, 1983 Bombing of Marine barracks in Beirut
247 Marines killed.
Reagan response: Cut and run
Dec. 12, 1983 Bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait
Reagan response: none
March 16, 1984 CIA Station Chief William Buckley
kidnapped and tortured to death
Reagan response: Reagan administration sells arms
to Iran; 3 hostages freed
Sept. 20, 1984 Bombing of U.S. Embassy annex northeast of Beirut
Reagan response: A possible CIA attempt to assassinate Sheik
Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, the leader of Hezbollah via a car
bomb. Everyone was killed except Fadlallah.
Dec. 3, 1984 Hijacking of Kuwait Airways Flight 221
Reagan response: none
June 14, 1985 Hijacking of TWA Flight 847. Robert Dean Stethem,
a U.S. Navy diver, was shot
Reagan response: Israel responded by releasing the prisoners
demanded by the hijackers
October 1985 - January 1986 Hijacking of cruise ****p Achille
Lauro; leon Klinghoffer killed
Bombing of Rome, Vienna air****ts
Reagan US response: US Navy sent to Gulf of Sidra
to provoke Khaddafi
April 5, 1986 Bombing of La Belle Discotheque; one american
soldier killed
Reagan response: 200 US aircraft attack Tripoli and
Benghazi; two days later, three Americans were murdered
in Beirut.
March 1987 - USS Stark attack by Iraqi missiles, 37 US
sailors killed.
Reagan response: None.
August 1988 - Iraq g***** Kurd villages with US-supplied
helicopters, thousands killed.
Reagan response: US aid to Iraq actually increased.
December 1988 - Pan Am 103 blown up over Lockerbie by Libyan
terrorists, 270 killed.
Reagan response: none.
>
> Liberals don't believe that America has to be a militarily strong
> nation. In fact, they think the Pentagon is their enemy.
For much of the world the Pentagon IS the enemy
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