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Paul Seifert's avatar

Zero Americans wanted a nation building expedition in Afghanistan and most certainly saw right through the Iraqi WMD bullshit being dumped on them. We should have blown into Afghanistan and killed OBL right there and left.

The consequences of those wars cannot be overstated. As a Reagan Republican I am pissed beyond words at my party.

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Travis's avatar

Even Reagan bailed on Lebanon after the Beirut Bombing and the civil war raged there through the rest of the 80's and into 1990. Funny how we don't count that one as a botched withdrawal that's at least up there with Somalia, if not others.

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Paul Seifert's avatar

As I recall that was a UN peacekeeping mission. I think Reagan wanted nothing to do with it but got talked into it. Somalia was also a UN mission until Clinton expanded the mission, something Sr never wouldтАЩve done.

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