In the WSJ, here
"...Say what you will about the style -- and practice -- of the Bush years, the autocracies were on notice for the first five or six years of George. W. Bush's presidency. America had toppled Taliban rule and the tyranny of Saddam Hussein; it had frightened the Libyan ruler that a similar fate lay in store for him. It was not sweet persuasion that drove Syria out of Lebanon in 2005. That dominion of plunder and terror was given up under duress..."
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Saddam had no trouble keeping Al Quada out of Iraq. But he did use plenty of weapons supplied by the Reagan administration to fight the Iranians in the '80s.
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