[pollyannaish]

Psssst, all you do is embarrass his name. You'd defend him better by shutting up about him.

I'd like to concur with 68.

I am sometimes embarrassed by your twisted excuse laden defenses of him and inability to see that we can learn from some of his mistakes. We do neither his legacy, or our credibility any favors by being blind.

My suspicion is that Reagan would have a more realistic view of his own successes and failures than you do. He was a real life, imperfect human being after all.

And this from such a fan that we named one of our children after him, fwiw.

[Reagan Man]

Its too bad you feel that way. Look. Concur with whatever bozo you like. I couldn't care less what you and others may think about my defense of Ronald Reagan. My passion for Reagan is real. If you don't like my posts, don't read them.

The Beirut bombing of 1983 was a tragic event. An event that Reagan took full responsibility for. I can appreciate people who had a problem with Reagan's response in 1983. However, I have a problem with people today, 23 years later, who employ 20/20 hindsight and would rather condemn Reagan instead of looking at the entire set of historic facts.

The Beirut bombing gave birth to several government commissions, including the famous Inman Commission. Things began to change after the Beirut bombing of 1983 and rightfully so. Strategies and tactics were altered to better handle the onslaught of terrorism. We are still fighting the terror that is, Islamofascism, and the US continues to make slow progress. This is the nature of the war on terror. We've been at it for 25 years, and will probably have another 25-50 years before the issue is finally settled. Maybe it never wil be.