Statement on the Situation in Lebanon
02/06/1984
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
The objective of the United States remains, as always, a comprehensive peace in the Middle East.
These unilateral reductions would, however, give a long-awaited encouragement for our efforts to achieve the genuine bal...
I'm sure they'll—as we will—they'll take it for what it is.
I think the other way would have sent out a wrong signal that we were patsies.