02-07-2012, 12:49 AM
Seamus Coogan Wrote:Jim DiEugenio Wrote:I submit it is because of men like Dulles doing the bidding of those who find it profitable that the status quo be maintained, or the economic battlefield be prepared for its exploitation.
That gets it Phil.
What Kennedy was learning about back there in 1951, is the post WW 2 imperial empire that the US was complicit in. And IMO, the Dulles brothers were part of it even at that early date through their law firm Sullivan and Cromwell. (But let me add: Kennedy became so clear eyed about this that he even criticized his own party as being part of it.)
And this is why his speeches were so studded with implicit references to John Foster Dulles.
Its a little known fact that Kennedy's father tried to get Allen Dulles fired when he was on the forerunner of the FIAB with Lovett and David Bruce.
Let me add another anecdote that shows how the colonial peoples understood what had happened, even though Americans did not at the time. When Mahoney's father showed the WR to Kwame Nkrumah of GHana, an ally of Lumumba who Kennedy backed, Nkrumah opened it up, looked at the page listing the commissioners, and found Allen Dulles' name. He pointed at it, and said, "Whitewash". He then gave the book back.
That is this case in a nutshell.
I love that last one.
Wholly absent from the "nutshell" are the larger spiritual and historical contexts of the crime.
Your love is blind, Seamus.