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To: SeekAndFind

Reagan put American flags on certain ships to show we would protect them. Attacks stopped.

But, that was when other countries actually feared our military. Not now.

Also a teaching moment for greedy left wing executives that worship globalism. Make your trinkets in America.


16 posted on 12/19/2023 12:36:08 PM PST by Fledermaus (It's time to get rid of the Three McStooges; Mitch, Kevin and Ronna! 1 gone, 1 almost dead. )
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To: Fledermaus
The situation you describe was one of the low points of the Reagan administration. The decision to let Kuwaiti tankers operate as U.S.-flagged vessels in 1987 and 1988 was made to circumvent U.S. law — which forbids the use of military assets to protect foreign civilian ships.

If I was a member of Congress at the time I would have introduced articles of impeachment against Reagan over that. And if I was a Senator I would have voted to throw his ass out of office.

18 posted on 12/19/2023 1:01:56 PM PST by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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