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...just don't think that is healthy or good. But you mentioned all the "strain." I have to say that I think there is less of a risk and less of a danger today than there was a few years ago. I think that the world is safer and further removed from a possible war than it was several years...
...most immediate issue facing the Reagan Administration was what to do about the Marines. The Joint Chiefs of Staffhave been working for some time on a plan to move them from the Beirut airport area to safer ground in Lebanon or to amphibious vessels offshore. Their place at the airport would then be taken by Lebanese soldiers, by other members of the Multi-National Force, or possibly even by troops from an as-yet-undesignated neutral nation. Within the Administration, some aides question whether the Marines are performing any really effective function in Lebanon. But the President is not prepared...
...U.S.Israeli relations was engineered largely by Secretary of State George Shultz, who has felt personally betrayed by the refusal of Syrian President Hafez Assad to carry out a promise to withdraw troops from Lebanon after Israel not only agreed to do so but unilaterally and prematurely drew back to safer positions in southern Lebanon, actually against U.S. wishes. The agreement is virtually a return to former Secretary of State Alexander Haig's "consensus of strategic concerns," in which U.S. and Israeli military cooperation was seen as vital to discouraging Soviet intrusion into Middle East politics and, more broadly...
...talks with Gemayel were less productive. The U.S. reportedly promised to continue to strengthen his forces, mainly with training advisers, so that they can control more territory. Any such progress would, of course, give Washington a rationale for moving its Marines to safer positions or to withdraw them completely. Privately, however, some U.S. officials fear that Gemayel is too timid and preoccupied with his personal safety to make any decisive moves...
President Reagan promised that the U.S. would not be subjected to another hostage crisis. In handling Grenada as he did, the President kept his word, and the world is a safer place...