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ASB for two reasons:
- Geopolitically, Reagan was not about to betray his closest ally (throwing a knife in NATO while doing so) to prop up some fascist regime in South America that most Americans couldn't point out on a map.
- Reagan was an Anglophile, most of his staff were Anglophiles (save Al Haig and Pat Buchanan), and the American public (for the most part) is quite Anglophile (Americans had gone NUTS for Charles and Diana's wedding only two years earlier).
- Geopolitically, Reagan was not about to betray his closest ally (throwing a knife in NATO while doing so) to prop up some fascist regime in South America that most Americans couldn't point out on a map.
- Reagan was an Anglophile, most of his staff were Anglophiles (save Al Haig and Pat Buchanan), and the American public (for the most part) is quite Anglophile (Americans had gone NUTS for Charles and Diana's wedding only two years earlier).