01-01-2013, 10:06 AM
As I begin Destiny Betrayed Second Edition I appreciate the context of the man, the president, his radical derailment of business as usual, his Douglassic martyrdom.
This Bay of Pigs operation was presented to the 35th president as a Trojan Horse, sold as a cure for Castro, proving a tar-and-feather job by blowback pros.
The missile crisis is rather flat yet foreboding in The Kennedy Tapes; casts JFK and Robert in a bad light in One Minute to Midnight, and opens more dimensions in Listening In. The major takeaway is it was a second time the hawks were thwarted--while they were again shown to be terribly stupid at strategic assessment: in the Bay of Pigs case they said it was a cakewalk (it was rolled up as fast as it arrived); in the case of the missiles, they would have ended history (yet the brass berated Kennedy in the insulting manner of Ted Dealey).
The plans of Hunt and his Op 40 arrow at a future use of frustrated crusader steroids.
The cases of Rose Cheramie and Sylvia Odio and David Ferrie show the sea was chummed in the run-up to the big event.
No product of a lone deranged aberrant, this was a gathering storm of the unspeakable.
Watching Garrison sail into this is to witness one of the few latter day heros of the Republic.
A history of valor not taught by the victorious cowards.
It is this entire context of the countercolonial Kennedy battling the predatory hawks which must arise from a sea of bromides.
This is a valuable work showing us a Dulles who in Evica is in Switzerland as Lenin is sent, is in Germany downplaying Hitler's threat and getting U.S. loans for the Reich, who is in country after country changing regimes with CIA and diplomatic and economic pressure.
Under an umbrella of anti-Communism Kennedy is made a heretic to be beset by swarms of vultures and hyenas.
Alinsky has nothing on Kubark when it comes to picking the target, freezing it, personalizing it, polarizing it.
After the Bay of Pigs--the next day--my fourteen-year-old neighbor across the street called Kennedy "a damned traitor"--is it any wonder Elmer Moore (who badgered Perry over the throat wound) would call the murdered president "a traitor"--that was the point of the Bay of Pigs.
A point underlined in red by the McCarthyite interpretation of the back channel negotiations with Castro and the secret correspondence with Khrushchev--our friend from Army intelligence intoning, "JFK was very dangerous, very dangerous."
I dismiss Dulles' insistence he thought Kennedy would cave and call in the Essex assets.
But then, Angleton deemed him one of the world's great liars, and, as Jim points out, carried his ashes.
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This Bay of Pigs operation was presented to the 35th president as a Trojan Horse, sold as a cure for Castro, proving a tar-and-feather job by blowback pros.
The missile crisis is rather flat yet foreboding in The Kennedy Tapes; casts JFK and Robert in a bad light in One Minute to Midnight, and opens more dimensions in Listening In. The major takeaway is it was a second time the hawks were thwarted--while they were again shown to be terribly stupid at strategic assessment: in the Bay of Pigs case they said it was a cakewalk (it was rolled up as fast as it arrived); in the case of the missiles, they would have ended history (yet the brass berated Kennedy in the insulting manner of Ted Dealey).
The plans of Hunt and his Op 40 arrow at a future use of frustrated crusader steroids.
The cases of Rose Cheramie and Sylvia Odio and David Ferrie show the sea was chummed in the run-up to the big event.
No product of a lone deranged aberrant, this was a gathering storm of the unspeakable.
Watching Garrison sail into this is to witness one of the few latter day heros of the Republic.
A history of valor not taught by the victorious cowards.
It is this entire context of the countercolonial Kennedy battling the predatory hawks which must arise from a sea of bromides.
This is a valuable work showing us a Dulles who in Evica is in Switzerland as Lenin is sent, is in Germany downplaying Hitler's threat and getting U.S. loans for the Reich, who is in country after country changing regimes with CIA and diplomatic and economic pressure.
Under an umbrella of anti-Communism Kennedy is made a heretic to be beset by swarms of vultures and hyenas.
Alinsky has nothing on Kubark when it comes to picking the target, freezing it, personalizing it, polarizing it.
After the Bay of Pigs--the next day--my fourteen-year-old neighbor across the street called Kennedy "a damned traitor"--is it any wonder Elmer Moore (who badgered Perry over the throat wound) would call the murdered president "a traitor"--that was the point of the Bay of Pigs.
A point underlined in red by the McCarthyite interpretation of the back channel negotiations with Castro and the secret correspondence with Khrushchev--our friend from Army intelligence intoning, "JFK was very dangerous, very dangerous."
I dismiss Dulles' insistence he thought Kennedy would cave and call in the Essex assets.
But then, Angleton deemed him one of the world's great liars, and, as Jim points out, carried his ashes.
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