Your reminder of the Beirut Barracks and Reagan's response was a good one. The distraction imperative of Trump's and his personal
need to be seen as the tough guy on the block will likely have Trump not doing a Reagan, but then he might be
dissuaded, as allegedly he was from some other mission (in Syria, think it was) earlier.
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”