Paul West:  

American fighters hit targets in and around the capital city of Tripoli. US troops on the ground in country. Bolivia, Columbia, Peru, Mexico, Panama - 1980-1988 - The USAF & Army assisted government troops on raids of cocaine and marijuana areas. Iran - 1986-88 - The United States intervened on the side of Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War. Tons of weapons and support flown into and routed from Jordan, Turkey & Pakistan. In 1978 President Carter authorized the CIA to provide financial and other forms of support to the opponents of the Sandinistas in Nicaragua. This support was continued throughout the Reagan administration. In 1982 and 1983, the CIA plotted to assassinate General Ahmed Dlimi, a Moroccan officer who sought to overthrow the Moroccan monarchy. In December of 1982, CIA Director William Casey told the House of Representatives and the Senate Intelligence Committees that President Reagan had authorized the CIA to try to topple the government of Suriname's ruler, Colonel Desi Bouterse. In 1983 the Nicaraguan government accused the CIA twice of hatching a plot to kill Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escoto. The CIA proposed a plan to assassinate Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi in 1986 as part of bombing missions carried out by American warplanes over Libya. Qadaffi's house was hit, and an adopted child was killed. President Reagan authorized an aborted attempt at influencing the 1987 Haitian elections to keep leftist Jean-Bertrand Aristide from being elected president. And these are just the highlites of headlines never printed! Nevermind such trivial event of fullscale support of the Afgan fighters in support against the war with the invading Soviet Union or the never ending UN missons in Cambodia since the Reagan era. NEXT CONFLICT: Africa, for securing oil, why else...bases already being built in 2007 for preparation.