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Carter, 1979
Islamic fanantics take American hostages.
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I am 100% certain that Jimmy Carter was not complicit in the taking of American hostages in Tehran. He was weak and incompetent in not dealing with the situation, this is undeniable. However ...
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1982, Reagan takes office and the hostages are released.
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First off, it was 1981. Second off, Reagan committed an outright atrocity for which he should have been censured by the Republican Party, not heralded, by caving into the demands of the terrorists. If Carter had done this they would have been released on his watch, and fúcktard neocon lapdogs would be bemoaning the way he "sold out American integrity."
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1982, US embassy is bombed by Muslims. Reagan sends marines to Beirut.
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Carter sent forces to Tehran. They got their asses handed to them.
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1983, Muslims blow up US Marines.
1985, Muslims seize the Achille Lauro and kill one American.
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These attacks occurring on Reagan's watch make him a hero, but other attacks on Carter and Clinton's watch make them inferior?
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Reagan captures the Muslim hijackers.
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Marines. United States Marines. Not over the hill senile political grandstanding poseurs.
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1986, Muslims from the Libyan embassy bomb a diso killing one American.
10 days later Reagan bombs Libya without the UN permission and without the help of Frances airspace.
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And the raid was a botch job that resulted in the death of an innocent civilian, Khadafi's daughter. If an assassination attempt on the current president resulted in the inadvertant death of one of his daughters we would be calling in a nuclear strike on the country or party behind it -- but when Reagan does it, he's a hero.
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Reagan wins the cold war.
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Reagan did not win the Cold War. Pope John Paul II had as much to do with the unraveling of the Soviet power structure as Reagan did, but nobody has the cajones to claim he toppled the USSR (well, probably Catholics, but much like the Republicans they're forgiven their nepotism.)
The USSR collapsed in on itself as an unavoidable consequence of wide-scale socialism combined with the endless warmòngering and interventionism of the Soviet state.
"Do not rewrite history." Priceless.
Phaedrus