Do you then BLAME
RONALD REAGAN for putting our troops into Beirut without bullets or air cover or a proper defense leading upto the deaths of 241 servicemen??
http://foreignpolicy.com/2014/02/07/when-reagan-cut-and-run/
How about this summary:
"Three-and-a-half months after the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut that killed 241 U.S. military personnel — and after repeatedly pledging not to do so — Reagan ordered the withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Lebanon. As Gen. Colin Powell later aptly summarized this military misadventure: "Beirut wasn’t sensible and it never did serve a purpose. It was goofy from the beginning."
If any president was responsible for the deaths of our military personnel, it was Ronald Reagan. His cut and Run policy in the middle east was a disaster that had serious consequences, yet YOU and the other people continue to praise Reagan as some kind of hero..
Its baffling on the mind, when you consider that Obama and Hillary had nothing to do with the deaths of the ambassador and personnel, as was testified to many times.
Those people were dead meat the moment the attacks took place, and NO AMERICAN FIRE POWER would have changed any of the circumstances of that evening.
Why are you people do dense, to believe that we could have just airplanes in, and they would have made it into the air space of another country without permission, actually flew to where the ambassador was and somehow chased away those responsible, or, troops could have been mobilized, instructed, planned out, and flown into the area to fight those burning down the measly apartment building that housed the ambassador and his staff is beyond STUPIDITY.
YOU and the others people keep saying that OBAMA and HILLARY did nothing, yet many lives were saved that day, but you fail to mention those. Nobody likes that people died, but trying to politicize the deaths of the ambassador and staff is what is really laughable.
You people have been turned into armchair generals, like the typical fox news viewer, and everything is as easy to you as playing a computer game.
Some intelligent people that night had decisions to be made, and you may not like those decisions, but those killed knew the dangers of their operations long before the night that they were killed.
OF all those people who had to make decisions, your input would be worthless if you sat in that room on that night.
Crap happens, people die, this is what foreign policy is all about.
Reagan got 241 servicemen killed with a bad plan, a bad policy and an even worse excuse, yet I dont hear you condemning him.
Get a clue.
TOS.