I wish to hell we still had Reagan in the White House. Remember the fear he instilled in Iran and other terrorist countries?
While Reagan did have his faults(pulling out of Beirut), he did send a message to Khadaffi(although Pan AM 103 may have been the payback) and Iran when the navy sanka bunch of their boats and shot down the Iran Air 660. If you read the history, that really got to them and was one of the reasons Khomeini drank the poison chalice