When all else fails - blame the "neo-cons". Ronald Reagan and Nixon were strict "neo-cons", apparently people are unaware what the term means and what it entails.
Note it was their idea to go to Lebanon. The neocons still do not forgive Reagan for leaving that theater of operations, and Reagan's adoption of Carter's Afghanistan policy not only did not help end the USSR (cheap oil did it) it created the basis for this new war we wage and Nixon allied himself to evil that is Red China. That is neoconisim in a nutshell.
You will know the tree by it's fruit....