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...timing was perhaps not perfect, with so much else going on in other parts of the world where the U.S. was engaged. In the wake of the successful U.S. invasion of Grenada, Reagan seems to be striving for a more muscular foreign policy, one more openly backed by the threat and occasional use of military force. Thus, the U.S. last week was massing naval power in the Middle East, possibly to retaliate for the attack on Marines in Lebanon-though whom to retaliate against, and how, was an unresolved question. Largely at the instigation of Secretary of State George Shultz...
...Grenada begins to rebuild, support solidifies for the invasion
...squads of U.S. paratroopers roared down onto the soccer field in their choppers, kicking up clouds of dust. The combat-equipped men hit the dry field running, then flopped prone into defensive positions, their rifles ready. Ahead of them, youths of the small seaside town of Gouyave, on Grenada's west coast, sat watching from a bridge railing. They broke into loud applause. So, too, did local women at the sides of the field. The American troops, who had been searching for armed Cuban or Grenadian holdouts in the little war that was over, had been given...
Reagan justifies the invasion of Grenada as a confrontation with the Soviet Union and Cuba in order to mobilize American society for an actual war with the Soviet bloc. Behind every-moment for social justice anywhere in the world the U.S. sees the hand of "Soviet aggression." Despite the political degeneration led by Stalin, the gains of the Russian Revolutions (a planned economy and collectivized property) remain and must be defeated. Without the aid of the USSR. Cuba would have been reduced to irradiated rubble over 20 years ago; without Soviet arms and Cuban troops the Black nationalist regime...
...complied with the Resolution as a whole. The case for Reagan' actions is more tenuous still. Lebanon had almost no Americans in residence last year, and moreover we have no formal defense agreement with the Lebanese Government. The question of imminent danger to the American students in Grenada remains at the core of the dispute over that action...