24-09-2013, 11:46 PM
Thanks VV.
I thought I knew just about everything there was to know about JFK's foreign policy.
Then something like this comes along and makes me admire the guy even more.
I mean that thing about thwarting the possible Russian airlift , and getting sixteen countries to sign on. I mean this is just three years after the CIA had cooperated on killing Lumumba, the continent's hero.
And I didn't know that in November of 1963, he commissioned a report so he could compete with DeGaulle in France's former colonies. And he tried to bribe Portugal into freeing its remaining colonies. And he actually aided the African rebels resisting Portugal.
Anyway, this is what I will be talking about at Duquesne. Did Kennedy's foreign policy get him killed?
Sure looks like it.
I thought I knew just about everything there was to know about JFK's foreign policy.
Then something like this comes along and makes me admire the guy even more.
I mean that thing about thwarting the possible Russian airlift , and getting sixteen countries to sign on. I mean this is just three years after the CIA had cooperated on killing Lumumba, the continent's hero.
And I didn't know that in November of 1963, he commissioned a report so he could compete with DeGaulle in France's former colonies. And he tried to bribe Portugal into freeing its remaining colonies. And he actually aided the African rebels resisting Portugal.
Anyway, this is what I will be talking about at Duquesne. Did Kennedy's foreign policy get him killed?
Sure looks like it.