14-06-2013, 01:25 AM
Nathaniel
I sense in your writing you see John F. Kennedy as experiencing a transformation from Cold Warrior to peace.
I just don't.
And believe me, I went to New York in '64 under an organizer named Dick Allen so that YAF could draft Goldwater.
I am continually seeing the world from John Kennedy's point of view--with a lot of help from Donald Gibson, and Gerard Colby and Charlotte Dennett, and a host of others.
His grudging support of the Bay of Pigs invasion was predicated on no overt support. The very operation was a whisper of the final product under Eisenhower; I've posited it was a trap, lighting up Kennedy as a target. Surely he felt conned, swindled, lied to--
His reaction there was measured and in no way bellicose as befits the stereotypical Cold Warrior.
In a year and a half his thirteen days were an emergency brake on the LeMay Stone Age Syndrome.
We see in Lodge the defiance borne of foreknowledge.
In Bundy's authorship of NSAM 273 with its "recriminations" is the visage of the fruition of the Dulles-Hunt writing partnership.
Craft of Intelligence along with a basket to catch your head.
Noam Chomsky should be struck by lightning.
That Wall in Washington with its dark inexorable presence, it is the headstone for the Kennedy Pax Americana not with arms but with a helping hand.
That is a discussion we should have had in that campaign.
Let America choose and hammer out the details.
Now we have every kind of intelligence as a lightning bolt in the talons of the warbird Ike warned us of
The beast slouches toward Syria--from the West and from the East
This god of war demands more sacrifice and tribute
Here in the fifthieth year
I sense in your writing you see John F. Kennedy as experiencing a transformation from Cold Warrior to peace.
I just don't.
And believe me, I went to New York in '64 under an organizer named Dick Allen so that YAF could draft Goldwater.
I am continually seeing the world from John Kennedy's point of view--with a lot of help from Donald Gibson, and Gerard Colby and Charlotte Dennett, and a host of others.
His grudging support of the Bay of Pigs invasion was predicated on no overt support. The very operation was a whisper of the final product under Eisenhower; I've posited it was a trap, lighting up Kennedy as a target. Surely he felt conned, swindled, lied to--
His reaction there was measured and in no way bellicose as befits the stereotypical Cold Warrior.
In a year and a half his thirteen days were an emergency brake on the LeMay Stone Age Syndrome.
We see in Lodge the defiance borne of foreknowledge.
In Bundy's authorship of NSAM 273 with its "recriminations" is the visage of the fruition of the Dulles-Hunt writing partnership.
Craft of Intelligence along with a basket to catch your head.
Noam Chomsky should be struck by lightning.
That Wall in Washington with its dark inexorable presence, it is the headstone for the Kennedy Pax Americana not with arms but with a helping hand.
That is a discussion we should have had in that campaign.
Let America choose and hammer out the details.
Now we have every kind of intelligence as a lightning bolt in the talons of the warbird Ike warned us of
The beast slouches toward Syria--from the West and from the East
This god of war demands more sacrifice and tribute
Here in the fifthieth year