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Neither Reagan nor Caspar Weinberger could resist any of the overpriced hardware offered them over the past eight years. The gains from such spending have been marginal. Now, indisputably, we are the most powerful military force in the hemisphere--ask any Grenadan...
...contradicting administration accounts of why we invaded Grenada. As the Wall Street Journal's Jonathan Kwitny put it, while "Reagan continued to argue that Grenada wanted its new airport only to serve as a Soviet military base...it is hard to understand how, if the Soviets really thought a Grenadan air facility was important, they could not have built even one runway on Grenada in less than three years." The reason we came out smelling like a rose is that we overthrew a different government than the one we had planned to. Instead of the moderately popular government headed...
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