Boo Radley
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Since you brought it up, could you provide some links to that information?
You don't remember Lebenon? Read up on it. Do the same with welfare motels.
In Lebanon, the Marines retreated to bunkers and trench fortifications. Casualties continued. During his January 1984 State of the Union address, Reagan asserted that America’s continued military presence in Lebanon was “central to our credibility on a global scale.” Two weeks later he ordered the Marines out.
It has become axiomatic that the main lesson of the 1983 Beirut debacle was about the danger of appeasing terrorists. This message was underscored by the Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, who pointed to the hasty withdrawal as proof that the Americans were “paper tigers.” “The Marines fled after two explosions,” he boasted.
AmericanHeritage.com / Death in Beirut: What Were the Lessons, and Did We Learn Them?
And that is without the entire arms for hostiages stuff.
Welfare hotels:
The new social contract: America's ... - Google Books
Presidential Silences and Symbols: Racial Politics and Welfare Retrenchment during the Reagan Presidency