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After Nicaragua appeared before the World Court and charged the U.S. with mining its harbors, the Reagan Administration refused to accept the court's order to desist. Considering the atmosphere created by the Government, should we be surprised with the ethics of those in the Administration who have gone astray...
...there is little reason for the soul-searching going on right now. Harvard graduates tend to do well after they leave because they were already talented achievers when they got here. The University claims too much credit for their later success; it isn't morally responsible when they go astray...
Poindexter's indulgence of North was a principal reason the Iran-contra affair went so badly astray, according to the Tower commission. Although North made himself into the point man for Iranscam's excesses, the Tower commission blames Poindexter for failing to restrain his aide in carrying out what were, after all, presidential policies. "Poindexter's own bent for operations aided and abetted rather than compensated for North," Commission Member Brent Scowcroft told TIME. "There's nothing wrong with having a 'cowboy' working for you, but you have to keep the reins tight...
Reagan's foreign policy has been distinguished by an obsession with opposing communism--and anything that vaguely resembles it--whenever and wherever possible. That monomania was ostensibly motivated by a concern for democracy, but if so the President, like Ahab, was led astray by his obsession. The confidence that he and his advisors had in their own ends led them to means that have subverted our country's democratic institutions...
More important, there were unexpected Soviet failures to gloat over. An SS-N-8 missile, launched two weeks ago from a submarine in the Barents Sea and aimed at the Kamchatka Peninsula in eastern Siberia, went astray and, in an obvious malfunctioning of both its guidance and selfdestruct systems, landed more than 1,500 miles off course, most probably in northeastern China. The Soviets insisted the missile had landed in their own territory...