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U.S.News & World Report assessed President Reagan's decision to send U.S. troops to Lebanon and the impact this would have on the United States. "Dispatch of a token force of marines to Beirut, it was widely agreed, would involve grave risks of incurring casualties and of becoming bogged down in someone else's interminable conflict. But Reagan was convinced that failure to act quickly to end the latest Mideast hostilities could lead to even greater dangers for the United States-just as President Eisenhower in 1958 decided to send marines into Lebanon to forestall a threatened collapse."
AP, UPI
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