In Reagan’s Defense

IN REAGAN’S DEFENSE

National Review’s editorial on the Beirut hostage episode [“Per- dicaris Alive, Raisuli Alive,” July 26] begins with the grand old story of how Theodore Roosevelt rescued an American citizen named Ion Perdicaris from the clutches of a Moroccan bandit named Raisuli. Far from being resolved by Roosevelt’s death threat against Raisuli, however, that imbroglio involved (as the editorial admits) “a long train of negotiations, much like those of the present day.”

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IN REAGAN’S DEFENSE

National Review’s editorial on the Beirut hostage episode [“Per- dicaris Alive, Raisuli Alive,” July 26] begins with the grand old story of how Theodore Roosevelt rescued an American citizen named Ion Perdicaris from the clutches of a Moroccan bandit named Raisuli. Far from being resolved by Roosevelt’s death threat against Raisuli, however, that imbroglio involved (as the editorial admits) “a long train of negotiations, much like those of the present day.”