Reagan's
charisma may have won over the nation, but not Unger. The Emergency State charges
Reagan with reinvigorating the weakened emergency state using the same old
methods we've seen time and time again: secrecy, deceit, and lack of
regard of for the constitution/law.
Particularly
with Reagan's National Security Conference and the Iran-Contra Affair does
Unger find fault. In the "Iran-Contra Affair", the US planned to
offer "friendship" to Iran in return for
their resistance to the Soviet Union, and release of American
hostages in the Middle east. Unfortunately, Reagan and the members of the NSC
"side-stepped" Congress in these efforts, which Congress wasn't all
too thrilled about. Investigations and arrests ensued, and as a strong
opponent of direct confrontational intervention in foreign
affairs, Unger's opinion of Reagan took a sharp decline.
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