23-11-2010, 02:15 PM
Charles Drago Wrote:Mark Stapleton Wrote:Personally I doubt JFK was ever a cold war warrior.
Mark,
You've hit upon the KEY element in understanding John and, for that matter, Robert Kennedy.
Even though you're dead wrong.
Neither man entered the world fully grown -- physically, intellectually, or spiritually.
Noam Chomsky's assassination analysis fails because it is predicated on the notion that humans cannot evolve as thinkers and as spiritual beings.
The greatness of John Fitzgerald Kennedy may be measured in direct proportion to his evolution in those areas -- especially the latter.
Charles
Of course you're right about JFK's evolution during those thousand days Charles.
The reason I believe he never was a cold warrior is because he was championing independence movements long before he won high office. His speech in 1956 supporting Algerian independence didn't win him many friends inside the French or Israeli Governments.
It seems incongruous to me that he could do this and still be a genuine cold war warrior.
I know some of his public comments, especially during the 1960 campaign, indicated he was a cold warrior but I think he was just playing the game for political expediency without really believing in it. The seeds of his spiritual and intellectual evolution were there from the early days.
Just my opinion.