07-05-2014, 03:13 PM
I said "could" and I'm talking about motives here. I never said "was involved." If you believe that a group of US conspirators sought to change foreign policy by linking the assassination with a foreign country, they would have to pin the tail on a credible donkey. Which leaves, to my mind, only three "straw men": Cuba, Vietnam, and Israel. We did get a war after all (Vietnam), but it wasn't the war the US military wanted (Cuba). The fact that the assassination did not, in fact, get successfully blamed on any straw man, means either a) that there wasn't any advance plot (whose aim was to influence US foreign policy), or b) that the plotters' purpose got "hijacked" by a separate group with a different agenda.