In many ways, most American ideals of ourselves were simply washed down the drain in the 1980s. For example, the dream of bringing any war criminals to trial was nixed by Ronald Reagan when the USA recused itself from such courts in the Netherlands after quietly laying land mines (against the U.S. Congress' orders) off the coast of Nicaragua.
The Reagan administration made a disaster of our long term social-economic interests. He created humongous divisions in wealth and built a nation of Gordon Geckos who have only grown more untouchable as the decades go by.
The Reagan administration secretly allied itself with Iraq in its decade-long war with Iran--making Saddam Hussein our bosom buddy in the region.
Please, tell your children and grandchildren the truth about the Ronald Reagan administration and its boondoggles--from the savings in loan scandals to allowing Sharon to make war on Lebanon. Such were the precedents of RR.
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