A Reagan redux--the Bush Administration's Iran-Contra Scandal
This is a cautionary tale of governance from behind the curtain of secrecy. Presidents since Jimmy Carter have worked for peace between Israel and Palestine. Until this one. This one believes in the biblical smiting of one’s enemies.
This is a cautionary tale of governance from behind the curtain of secrecy. Presidents since Jimmy Carter have worked for peace between Israel and Palestine. Until this one. This one believes in the biblical smiting of one’s enemies.
The George Bush administration appears to be coming undone in it’s last years in precisely the same way that the Reagan administration came unglued—and for similar reasons—murky operatives, prescribing illegalities to a distracted president. This time it’s Elliott Abrams whose shoes show just below the Oval Office draperies, a man mentored by the infamous Richard Perle. Abrams won his spurs as a convicted Iran-Contra conspirator.
The story reeks of Henry Kissinger redux and Colonel Oliver North’s misleading of the Reagan Congres…