“I really do think we’re missing an opportunity, a historic opportunity here — if we had a president like my old boss in the White House,” he said. “Every time [when] I was mayor and I had to make a difficult decision, I would say, ‘What would Ronald Reagan do?’ I know what Ronald Reagan would do right now. He would have hit Iran before their first missile got to Israel. And he would have taken out every nuclear facility he could. He would have been trying to look for an opportunity to do that for years.”
Reagan? No. Bush 41. Yes. Bush 43. Yes (especially after 9/11 which happened 8 months after his inauguration).
I think Pres Reagan would have hit Iran first.
Protecting Israel would have been the 2nd thing he would be protecting in his mind.
The first would be America.
Hitting Iran first would be protecting America in the long run and Pres Reagan played that type of chess.
Reagan, of blessed memory, gave Iran weapons in exchange for US hostages. For that, he was almost impeached.
I have a memory.
Giuliani is probably wrong about this. Reagan bailed out of Lebanon the moment things went bad there for the U.S. there.
Yes he would have, Unfortunately we have a demented obama puppet in the White House. All you Biden voters,,,, are you happy now?! Effing idiots.
And Trump shut them down during his four years.
There was a whole host of bombers and drones in the air, all visible on Iran’s radar, prepared to hit secondary targets if they did anything else. Iran totally backed down and did nothing for the rest of Trump’s term. He scared the dishdashah off of them.
Am interested in your take on this. Thanks.
For what reason, if any, did Iran attack Israel?
First, President Reagan would not have given Iran that kind of money.
His arms-for-hostages deals were cooked up by Poindexter and North, and constantly played on Reagan’s deep sympathy for the hostages. But he was buffaloed before North totally went rogue. Also, it was entirely done in the context of an Iran-Iraq war-—not a war against an ally. Basically he allowed the two tigers to fight.
Second, though, Reagan never reacted with force of arms unless:
a) urged to in an emergency by neighboring nations as in Grenada; b) as a peacekeeping force, which he admitted was an error (Lebanon); or c) without multiple, repeated specific warnings (Libya).
Third, for something such as this-—which might risk a major war-—Reagan’s Doctrine was to exhaust every other possibility; get FULL support of the American public; go in with overwhelming force; and to stipulate an exit strategy.
So I don’t think he’d act in this situation, but he wouldn’t have given the Mullahs this much money in the first place.