Reagan, Iran, Contras and Breaching the Public Trust
What a sad and revealing spectacle it is to witness senior active-duty United States military officers publicly confirm, by taking the Fifth Amendment, that they place their own personal legal welfare above the general welfare of the country they are sworn to serve.
Whatever happened to General MacArthur’s noble philosophy of “Duty, Honor, Country”? Where are the honorable men who believed in such quaint notions now that we so desperately need them?
ROBERT S. COUGHLIN
Rancho Palos Verdes
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