20-09-2013, 09:15 PM
Tracy Riddle Wrote:Charles Drago Wrote:Tracy Riddle Wrote:Charles, the American empire existed long before JFK was even born. Just ask the Filipinos or the Native Americans or the Mexicans.
Tracy,
Help me to understand the relevance of your response above to my points on this thread.
Thanks.
Well, regarding your quote - "Ask, for instance, the survivors of My Lai what they see as the "ultimate legacy" of JFK's murder."
JFK might have succeeded in getting us out of Vietnam if he had lived, and maybe not. But the system that existed before he took office would probably have survived to some extent and rebuilt itself after his second term. The Kennedy brothers were a brief blip in the system like the Gracchi brothers in ancient Rome.
Expanding upon your thought, we're looking not at an American system, but something far larger, truly ancient, and ultimately non-material.
Charles Drago
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene