Up against the ropes in the Iran-Contra affair, Ronald Reagan should have come out swinging, announcing clearly that this government carries itself in the tradition of the Marquis de Lafayette, that freedom fighters will no longer be left to die in the jungle, like Brigade 2506 at the Bay of Pigs.

"Peace in Our Time: The Spirit of Munich Lives On," Policy Review, Summer 1987, by Michael Johns: Defining the Reagan Doctrine