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Reagan's Legacy: Over
The Brink Into Dishonor
Editor's Note: The following
is an editorial appearing in the
July /August issue of Present
Tense magazine, an indepen-
dent bimonthly published by
the American Jewish
Committee.
Twenty-three years after
Barry Goldwater, a genuine
conservative, went down in
defeat, a new breed of radical
zealots finally won it all in
1980. Ronald Reagan was
elected our 40th President.
And what did these new
zealots do? They failed — and
abysmally so.
Instead of policies, they gave
us postures.
Instead of sober pragmatism
and well thought-out, coherent
approaches to complex pro-
blems, they gave us visions of
a world viewed through rigid
ideologies and gun sights.
In the name of "defending
freedom" in Central America,
they made a mockery of democ-
racy at home by lying and mak-
ing end runs around Congress
and by redefining weapons and
ammunition as "humanitarian
aid," the contras as "the moral
equivalents of our Founding
Fathers" and the Boland
Amendment and the Office of
the Special Prosecutor as "un-
constitutional."
And while genuine freedom
fighters were rotting and dying
in Philippine, Argentine and
Brazilian jails; while silence
reigned in their ranks about
mass murders in Haiti, Guate-
mala and El Salvador (not to
mention the appalling racism of
South Africa), their neoconser-
vative retainers were hard at
work spinning artificial distinc-
tions between "authoritarian-
ism" and "totalitarianism" —
never mind that tyrants on the
right also torture and kill.
Looking back, and with only
17 months left of this Ad-
ministration, what is clear is
that at home they've cut
billions from the domestic
budget and spent trillions on
the military.
We've paid for rearmament
by creating an army of
homeless and unemployed fac-
tory workers and farmers and
poor women and kids. The
"safety net" has all but
disintegrated. Instead, the
Reagan Administration en-
shrined greed and privatism
and hedonism as national
goals, all the while cynically
preaching about "returning to
traditional values." Whoever
succeeds this Administration
will inherit the leadership of the
world's biggest debtor nation
and a mountain of problems
that have been shoved aside in
order that we could "stand tall."
Recall for a moment Al
Smith's famous challenge,
"Let's look at the record":
A score or more dead while
securing the free world's supp-
ly of nutmeg in Grenada; 241
marines blown to bits in a
Beirut bunker for no discerni-
ble reason anyone can even
remember; 37 sailors blasted
and burned while patrolling the
Persian Gulf, and more spies
than at any time since the start
of the Cold War exporting bales
of classified documents to
foreign powers. Does anyone
really believe our nation is any
more secure, the Middle East
any closer to peace, the world
safer for our children as a result
of this Administration's obses-
sion with muscle-flexing?
If the truth be known, the
President is like an aging box-
er who thinks he can dazzle his
fans and opponents with
punch-drunk bluster about his
readiness to take on all comers.
He is, sadly, still caught up
with macho imagery, believing
that America can still get by on
shallow ideas inscribed on a
fistful of 3 x 5 cards and public
relations tricks.
Whoever succeeds Reagan in
1989 can undo the damage in-
flicted by eight years of Rocky-
style diplomacy only by rejec-
ting the ideological fallacies
that have driven this Ad-
ministration over the brink in-
to dishonor and disarray
through obsessive anti-
Communism, militarization of
America's foreign policy and
government by secrecy and
duplicity.
Reagan's successor should
declare forthrightly that
United States foreign policy
will return to the principles
that brought this country to a
position of preeminence as a
respected and honored super-
power: realism in responding to
our adversaries, resolution of
international conflicts through
thoughtful diplomacy and,
finally, cooperation with Con-
gress in charting the course of
our international relations.
Perhaps then we will display,
once again, true strength at
home and abroad.
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1 NEWS
Soviets Allow
Culture Clubs
New York (JTA) —
Authorities in Leningrad and
Minsk will permit the
establishment of a Jewish
culture club in each city, and
a Leningrad synagogue has
received permission to offer
religious lessons, it was
reported by the National Con-
ference on Soviet Jewry.
The locations of the culture
clubs have not yet been an-
nounced.