Michael Knowles
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Appearances Over Time
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I've thought about this since we hit the end of the fifth week on Iran.
I was thinking about ways that Trump could fulfill his promise to scale this thing back after five weeks, which he has done, by the way.
He did it three days late, four days late.
But I'll give him a little wiggle room.
He actually did what he said he was going to do.
Is there a way to do it?
Without ceding American strength, without seeming like you're a coward.
And then I was going back through history and thinking about the greatest presidential examples of American strength in recent memory.
Who are they?
Okay, the first one, Ronald Reagan, right?
Peace through strength.
That was his slogan.
Peace through strength.
That cowboy, Ronald Reagan.
Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.
Won the Cold War for America.
How did Reagan react in 1984 to the Beirut barracks bombings?
when Hezbollah, that is to say, when Iran killed over 200 soldiers.
There's 241 Marines killed in the Beirut barracks bombings.
What did Reagan do?