07-05-2014, 05:30 AM
IMO, none of those countries were formally involved in JFK's murder.
The point of Rakove's book is how Kennedy's foreign policy so much altered the USA relations with these countries to such an extensive degree.
That people involved in the old regime, decided that he was changing things too fast. ANd it has to stop.
And did it ever. Thanks to old Cold Warrior Lyndon.
WHat I like about the two books is that they finally take us away from the total concentration on Cuba and Vietnam. Kennedy's foreign policy was much bigger than that. And what was at stake was even more than that. To reduce it to just Vietnam and CUba is reductive of who he was and what was on the line for the Power Elite.
The point of Rakove's book is how Kennedy's foreign policy so much altered the USA relations with these countries to such an extensive degree.
That people involved in the old regime, decided that he was changing things too fast. ANd it has to stop.
And did it ever. Thanks to old Cold Warrior Lyndon.
WHat I like about the two books is that they finally take us away from the total concentration on Cuba and Vietnam. Kennedy's foreign policy was much bigger than that. And what was at stake was even more than that. To reduce it to just Vietnam and CUba is reductive of who he was and what was on the line for the Power Elite.