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'He Dragged America Deeper Into the Middle Eastern Quagmire': What Harris and Trump Can Learn From Reagan's Mistakes

Ronald Reagan's Middle East policy was a fiasco from beginning to end, says Washington Post columnist Max Boot, who has just written an authoritative new biography on the GOP legend. The next U.S. president would do well to study his mishandling of crises with Israel, Lebanon and Iran

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Ben Samuels
Ben Samuels
Washington
Ben Samuels
Ben Samuels
Washington

WASHINGTON – A U.S. president whose foreign policy was unwillingly defined by the Middle East. Tensions between a U.S. president and an Israeli prime minister over Lebanon military operations indiscriminately targeting civilians. A hostage crisis that ensnared a U.S. president initially trying to focus on different parts of the world.

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