05-12-2012, 12:21 AM
Jim, your review How the World Was Saved of Blight & Yang The Armageddon Letters/Virtual JFK is a hologram of deep political profundity.
I had recently read The Kennedy Tapes by May & Zelikow and followed the comparatively tame proceedings.
The latest in-depth appraisal is rich in the potential for a cascade of errors leading to desolation.
At the close of The Tapes it became clear that Kennedy's apparent tedious recalcitrance was the sole stake-and-chain holding the world back from its end.
With each revelation the vista of the set trap is more chilling, LeMay's bluster to the contrary notwithstanding.
How reckless was Khrushchev's gambit. That it is followed by a secret correspondence with Kennedy lights them both up with their hardline shadow states.
It is posited NSA monitoring of the process led to Dallas. Surely in Douglass' Unspeakable, Kennedy in his own words commented upon Seven Days in May as possible if a young president made only two or three such overtures contrary to the geostrategic construct.
Lane comments on Lisa Howard in Last Word: My Indictment of the CIA in the Murder of JFK. That it became personal for him with events like her suspicious death.
Send in the hawks: Johnson and Brezhnev. This is the game played for maximum profit and power.
Peace? It could not compete in such a market.
And Castro, he senses his mortality and at the last calls for no nuclear weapons--
--when as a younger man was all too ready for a "pre-emptive strike to prevent an invasion"--
LeMay would control the autopsy (a most likely scenario) after Op 40 players pumped their umbrella
and Johnson lied, "Let us continue."
I had recently read The Kennedy Tapes by May & Zelikow and followed the comparatively tame proceedings.
The latest in-depth appraisal is rich in the potential for a cascade of errors leading to desolation.
At the close of The Tapes it became clear that Kennedy's apparent tedious recalcitrance was the sole stake-and-chain holding the world back from its end.
With each revelation the vista of the set trap is more chilling, LeMay's bluster to the contrary notwithstanding.
How reckless was Khrushchev's gambit. That it is followed by a secret correspondence with Kennedy lights them both up with their hardline shadow states.
It is posited NSA monitoring of the process led to Dallas. Surely in Douglass' Unspeakable, Kennedy in his own words commented upon Seven Days in May as possible if a young president made only two or three such overtures contrary to the geostrategic construct.
Lane comments on Lisa Howard in Last Word: My Indictment of the CIA in the Murder of JFK. That it became personal for him with events like her suspicious death.
Send in the hawks: Johnson and Brezhnev. This is the game played for maximum profit and power.
Peace? It could not compete in such a market.
And Castro, he senses his mortality and at the last calls for no nuclear weapons--
--when as a younger man was all too ready for a "pre-emptive strike to prevent an invasion"--
LeMay would control the autopsy (a most likely scenario) after Op 40 players pumped their umbrella
and Johnson lied, "Let us continue."