11-04-2010, 01:44 PM
Paul Rigby Wrote:A quick plug for a thread started by Gerald Ven on JFK Lancer, "Adm. George W. Anderson, Jr., Joint Chiefs & JFK." In particular, this excellent post in response by Gary Craig:
http://www.jfklancerforum.com/dc/dcboard...87079&page
Quote:Interesting. In a briefing for RFK on Operation Mongoose from the JCS files:
"... the military believe the continued existence of the Castro Communist regime is incompatable with the minimum security requirements of the United States and the entire Western Hemisphere."
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archiv...elPageId=3
Then on 12/3/63 a complete about face?
MEMORANDUM FOR GENERAL TAYLOR from LBJ
The more I look at it, the more it is clear to me that South Vietnam is our most critical military area right now. I hope you and your colleages in the Joint Chiefs of Staff will see to it that the very best available officers are assigned to General Harkins' command in all areas and for all purposes. We should put our blue ribbon men on this job at every level.
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archiv...elPageId=3
Gary Craig
In other words, the true criteria for engagement had NOTHING to do with those being advertised.
Our hemispheric bogeyman was in place and generating political and financial capital. What would the likes of Bush and General Dynamics do without The Beard?
How could the Cold War power and cash machines run without the lubricants that were "our" "enemies?"
It was on to greener killing fields. Battlefields. Poppy fields.
My, wasn't "Poppy" Bush aptly named!
Charles Drago
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
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-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene