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The modern era of terrorist attacking US targets was begun in first term of the Reagan administration when Muslim ME terrorist targeted and bombed the US Embassy in Beirut Lebanon on April 18, 1983. It killed 63 people, including 17 American citizens. It was the first targeted American violent attack by Muslim middle eastern terrorist.
The OP was asked in several posts or provide or explain the Reagan response. She has refused to answer the simple question because it was obviously not of any merit. Instead, she has reverted to her method of deflection by changing the subject and piling on endless cut and paste to divert attention from the fact she is afraid to answer the question.
The question has an ugly answer and shows how Reagan started the downhill slide into the era of terrorism that is still with us. Marines were in Lebanon. Our last remaining Battleship was off the coast of Lebanon. An aircraft carrier task force was off the coast of Lebanon. Allied French paratroopers were in Lebanon, a NATO force trained to coordinate with US Marines.
On Oct 23, 1983, having no fear of US retribution or significant response to the Embassy bombing, the terrorist blew up the Marine Barracks with a truck bomb that killed over 243 Marines. The modern era of terrorism had begun. Terrorist saw the profits and benefits to using the targeting of Americans and American interest as a reliable and acceptable tactic.
1. Terrorism could not have begin with Reagan, as it was Democrat Jimmy Carter who provided a home for the blood cult that we call Iran.
"When the Iranian revolution came to power, with the help of Democratic President Jimmy Carter, the Ayatollah Khomeini killed more human beings (about twenty thousand) in two weeks than had been killed by the Shah during his entire thirty-eight years. Khomeini followed this by sending hundreds of thousands of Iranians to die in the Iran-Iraq war, as martyrdom was needed to resurrect the Islamic Empire."
Paul Berman, “Terror and Liberalism,” p. 108
Did you know that Democrat Carter preceded the great one, Ronald Reagan?
True story.
And Democrat Franklin Roosevelt even earlier.
BTW.....is it true that your god, Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt, despised minorities such as Jews, blacks and Asians?