 Complete the following phrase:  Moynihan continued to be interested in foreign policy as a Senator, sitting on the Select Committee on Intelligence. His strongly anti-Soviet views became far more moderate when he emerged as a critic of the Reagan administrations hawkish tilt in the late Cold War, as exemplified by its support for the Contras in Nicaragua. Moynihan argued there was no active Soviet-backed conspiracy in Latin America, or anywhere. He suggested the Soviets were suffering from massive internal problems, such as rising ethnic nationalism and a collapsing economy. In a December 21, 1986, editorial in The New York Times, Moynihan predicted the replacement on the world stage of Communist expansion with ethnic conflicts. He criticized the administrations consuming obsession with the expansion of Communism  which is not in fact going on. In a September 8, 1990 letter to Erwin Griswold, Moynihan wrote: I have one purpose left in life; or at least in the Senate. It is to try to sort out what would be involved in reconstituting the American government in the aftermath of the Cold War. Huge changes took place, some of which we hardly notice. In 1981 he and fellow Irish-American politicians Senator Ted Kennedy and Speaker of the House Tip ONeill co-founded the Friends of Ireland, a bipartisan organization of Senators and Representatives who opposed the 