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...sending troops to a minuscule island in the eastern Caribbean, the Reagan Administration last week attempted to reassert the global role of American military might. "This may be a turning point in history," Secretary of State George Shultz told a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, hours after the Grenada landing and two days after the Beirut carnage. "We've let the world know that we are going to protect our interests whatever it costs...
Those costs will certainly be high, far higher than the tragic loss of life alone. By invading Grenada, the U.S. risks tarnishing the high moral standard, based on respect for national sovereignty and self-determination, that distinguishes its conduct in the world from that of its Soviet adversary. Indeed, cries of outrage rang forth from Latin America, Western Europe and even the chambers of Congress-not to mention the predictable howl from Moscow, where TASS called Reagan "a modern Napoleon," devoid of conscience and simpleminded. By embroiling itself more deeply in the turbulent situation in Lebanon, the U.S. risks becoming...
Reagan and his advisers argue that the high stakes and legitimate objectives in each case justify the perils. The invasion of Grenada was necessary, they say, to protect the lives of Americans. But in fact the Marines' mission had a more brazen goal. U.S. timidity in recent years has encouraged Soviet mischief in diverse parts of the world. Particularly in the Caribbean, the U.S. has felt it has a responsibility to stand up against hostile influences and ensure that there are "no more Cubas." The Administration seized on the situation in Grenada to demonstrate, after years of near paralysis...
...meeting with the foreign ministers of France, Italy and Britain in a château near Paris. That is, of course, impossible until it is known with assurance who is responsible for the bombings. British Foreign Secretary Geoffrey Howe seemed concerned that Reagan, flushed by his success in Grenada, might lash out at a Lebanese rebel group, or even Syria or Iran. Howe pointedly remarked that massive retaliation would be imprudent. Says a State Department official: "The Brits were just seeking to reassure themselves that we were not planning to take out a country, or go off half-cocked." Shultz...
...events in Lebanon and Grenada, though oceans apart, are closely related," President Reagan maintained in the summation of his televised address. Moscow, he said, "assisted and encouraged the violence in both countries." As a consequence, the U.S. must become less reticent about asserting itself in the world. As Reagan noted, "We are not somewhere else in the world protecting someone else's interests. We are there protecting...