09-07-2015, 06:49 PM
Drew Phipps Wrote:"Radical and forward leaning" sounds kinda dangerous, and I doubt, in the 60's, that the word "kinda" would have been used. Are we leaning into an intuitive understanding here?
http://www.ctka.net/2014/JFKForeignPolicy.html
Nothing intuitive about it Drew. As you can see from the above. Its all documented and in the record.
When you literally overturn your predecessor in say about 8 different places all over the globe, and you endanger your relationships with your European allies in order to strengthen or liberate godforsaken places like Indonesia, Congo, and various spots in Africa, then that is radical and forward leaning.
Not to mention in the part 2 above which shows how his followers reversed JFK's policy in the Middle East, which was to favor Nasser over Saudi Arabia and not to let Israel have atomic weapons.
Unfortunately, all of these were overturned in about 18 months after the assassination. That is how radical they were.
You don't do things like this because you were "turned" by the Missile Crisis.