How can some criticize him for being too nice in Lebanon and others criticize him for being mean to them?
Grenada?
Easily explained.
Commie Cubans were infiltrating, trying to take over. The country's leader was kidnapped, killed, something. Been a while since it made the news. A bunch of nearby countries, the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States, pleaded for help.
Reagan sent Schwarzkopf and, according to the movie, Clint Eastwood and he removed the threat.
Also, the many medical students could have ended up as hostages, or worse, and the world was taking as many Americans hostage as they could those days.
Lebanon was a giant mess.
Reagan knew about it when it wasn't. When it was "Las Vegas" in that part of the world, before the muslims grew in number and as always started a big war.
He tried to "keep the peace". Maybe if Carter had not decimated the military and its funding he could have gone in really hard, fixed the place up, but others will say that would have made a bigger problem.
If Lebanon was officially a peacekeeping mission, with Marines on patrol with unloaded guns at times, then that is equivalent of a bunch of operations right now. Can't call that a war.
Don't go after Ronald.
How can some criticize him for being too nice in Lebanon and others criticize him for being mean to them?
Grenada?
Easily explained.
Commie Cubans were infiltrating, trying to take over. The country's leader was kidnapped, killed, something. Been a while since it made the news. A bunch of nearby countries, the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States, pleaded for help.
Reagan sent Schwarzkopf and, according to the movie, Clint Eastwood and he removed the threat.
Also, the many medical students could have ended up as hostages, or worse, and the world was taking as many Americans hostage as they could those days.
Lebanon was a giant mess.
Reagan knew about it when it wasn't. When it was "Las Vegas" in that part of the world, before the muslims grew in number and as always started a big war.
He tried to "keep the peace". Maybe if Carter had not decimated the military and its funding he could have gone in really hard, fixed the place up, but others will say that would have made a bigger problem.
If Lebanon was officially a peacekeeping mission, with Marines on patrol with unloaded guns at times, then that is equivalent of a bunch of operations right now. Can't call that a war.