Reagan retaliated for German nightclub bombing that killed US serviceman
He did not retaliate for Lockerbie/PanAm 103. I believe Bush 41 had just won the US presidency a month before Lockerbie ... so it happened (conveniently) as the watch was changing
As far as I know, NO ONE ever retaliated for Lockerbie
Strange, that
As if the uS accepted the deaths of all those people over guilt for the USS Vincennes downing the Iranian Airbus 4 months earlier...
oh wait, that would make Iranian mullahs a co-conspirator player, wouldn’t it? We don’t want to deal with that...after all, the Iranian moderates are just waiting to come into power...so our experts have been saying since 1975
Lockerbie was slap back for the nightclub bombing slap back. It's hard to keep track without a program in front of you.
Our so-called leaders are MORAL COWARDS. They don't lance the boil of Iran, but flail about elsewhere.
My concern is for my brothers in arms. I've been there, done that, still have t-shirts.
My policy is that civilians control the military. And that when the military is invoked, they should be allowed to slip the leash.
You should see me on abortion threads, I'm obnoxious. All life is precious to me. Especially children. Which is why war should be entered into very carefully. Because children will be killed. Or left homeless, or parentless.
Our leaders suck. It's our fault. Kids got killed.
/johnny
Actually, and it is a long time ago, and I'm only relying on my memory, but Sunday TImes published a series of articles showing that it was Syria (possibly in collusion with Iran) that had perpetrated the bombing of PanAm103.
For a while there Syria was in the haircross, but then Syria became a valued ally in the first Gulf war, and soon after Bush Sr (and State) decided to make history with yet another failed Middle East peace plan - the Madrid meeting. And suddenly, no more mention of Syrian involvement in Lockerbie - it was all Libya and Qadafhi.
What a surprise!