Noonan: "Heroes Pay The Price"...

Peggy Noonan's Op-Ed in OpinionJournal.com today echoes some of my thoughts on the revelation of Mark Felt's "Deep Throat" identity yesterday.

And she point out another tragic consequence of the leaker that brought down a President:

Nixon's ruin led to a cascade of catastrophic events--the crude and humiliating abandonment of Vietnam and the Vietnamese, the rise of a monster named Pol Pot, and millions--millions--killed in his genocide. America lost confidence; the Soviet Union gained brazenness. What a terrible time. Is it terrible when an American president lies and surrounds himself by dirty tricksters? Yes, it is. How about the butchering of children in the South China Sea. Is that worse? Yes. Infinitely, unforgettably and forever.

I was too young to remember these events first hand, but even at such a young age I could sense that lost confidence. Thank goodness for Ronald Reagan.

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