new research on kennedy

Just saw an interesting talk on "Book TV" with Laurence Leamer, author of a new book "The Kennedy Men, 1901-1963"

 

He is not a Marxist, described himself as "anti-communist", but that makes his comments all the more interesting. He has publicized numerous letters, memos, and documents that demonstrate Kennedy's enthusiastic leadership in assassination plans, including the invasion of Cuba, where, apparently, in one bombing run with napalm and machine gun fire, CIA pilots killed 1800 Cuban civilians. 1800. In a country of, what?, maybe 8 million at the time? On a scale of proportionality, that would be equivalent to 60,000 or more in the U.S. today. (About 12 times the Sept. 11 deaths.)  ---and this is just a "minor" event in Cuba--one could, again, bring up Indonesia, Vietnam, Chile, Taiwan, Iraq, the Congo, etc. etc.

 

 

So presumably, were Kennedy and all his associates terrorists equivalent to the Taliban? Perhaps more so, since it was U.S. government personnel who bombed Cuba, while it was not the Taliban who bombed NYC, but rather that the Taliban are accused of "protecting bin Laden."  (Or do we say, as some do, that the larger number of deaths caused by "modernistic capitalist/imperialists" are more excusable than the deaths caused by religious-nationalists who have the appearance of opposing "modernity?")

 

And presumably, those who support the war against Afghanistan based on moral principles of fighting terrorism would therefore support an attempt to capture Kennedy and all his advisors, even to the point of bombing major U.S. cities where they might have been hiding?  Of course that would have been terrible. Hundreds of thousands of innocent people would have been killed. So, too, in Afghanistan and Iraq by US organized military action. 

 

 

Alan Spector

 

P.S. --Incidentally, Neil Baldwin was also on that show, and has an interesting new book :  "Henry Ford and the Jews: The Mass Production of Hate". I suspect that the left/liberal media will soon have shorter magazine articles based on these books, but it might be worth reading the books now, rather than waiting for the digested versions. This is the kind of material that can help open the eyes of other teachers, students, and the public at large.