Where was the moral outrage when Ronald Reagan’s insatiable lust for universal capitalism led to deals with Iran to fund regimes in Central America who were responsible for the rape and murder of countless innocents, including Priests and Nuns? Where was the disgust when those deals threatened the lives of American citizens and prolonged their captivity?

Where was the righteous indignation when Reagan disciples financed these same butchers by facilitating drug shipments into the U.S.?

Were Reagan’s repeated claims that he could "not recall" an attempt to mislead Congress, or was he senile at the time?

Why were sensibilities not offended when Reagan blatantly subverted the Constitution by providing military aid to the Contras, in direct defiance of the 1982 Boland Amendment?

Where is the balance of justice when you scream for impeachment over a foolish sexual liaison between consenting adults, yet you still yearn for the glorification of Reagan’s visage on Mount Rushmore and smear his name across any building or airport you can get your hands on? It seems to me that the ‘holy altar’ of the Oval Office was much more desecrated by the evils of the Reagan administration than by Bill Clinton’s adolescent sexual indiscretions.

Elliot M. Namay, Jr.

October, 1998