[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

"Everything that followed including 9-11 falls back in part to our nonresponse to the wholesale murder of our Marines that day."

Didn't help. But it goes further back than that, at least to Jimmy Carter's betrayal of the Shah and his impotent response to the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.

[DB]

That's why I said "in part".

[HardStarboard]

>>>"Everything that followed including 9-11 falls back in part to our nonresponse to the wholesale murder of our Marines that day."<<<

Reagan's non-response was unfortunate, perhaps even tragic. But a multitude of others had an opportunity to make an appropriate response and delclined to do the right thing.

Iraq Hostiges, Kobar Towers, Tanzania, Narobi, Cole.....all were basically non-responsive to an entity that had declared war on the United States in 1996!

Blaming Reagan is simplistic and ignorant. Radical Islam many have reared its head on his watch.....but others let it prosper....until G. W. Bush came along.