13-06-2015, 03:29 AM
Its incredible how slow the MSM is on this stuff. Goldstein's book was an important contribution to the literature because he was working with a co author, Mac Bundy, who was in the White House.
The book was published in 2008. And the excellent Frank Rich broke the story about the doves in Obama's White House passing it around in 2009.
It is a good book. Here is my review: http://www.ctka.net/reviews/virtual_jfk_3.html
I mentioned it the night of the Jim Douglass, Lisa Pease, Oliver Stone talk.
But IMO, this issue has been decided, and to talk about this is really kind of a diversion. Why?
Because if Rachel was a real scholar, she would be talking about how Johnson and Nixon changed JFK's Middle East policy!! That is the real story. And its a direct analog not an indirect one.
Kennedy was not beholden to Israel, and was much more even handed with the moderate Arabs. Like Nasser and Sadat.
He was also against Saudi Arabia, and backed Nasser's importation of troops into Yemen to block Saudi expansionism. He also asked for a position paper on Iran to see if it was possible to get rid of the Shah and bring back Mossadegh. He worried that the extreme monarchies could lead to a fundamentalist revolution in the Middle East. And he brought this up back in 1957!! In his great Algeria speech. These policies were all reversed upon his death.
And guess what? He was right. Where did the explosion of fundamentalism happen? In Iran in 1979.
And who caused it? John McCloy. Mr. cover up on the JFK case. How did McCloy aid the rise of Moslem fundamentalism? By pimping for the real Chairman, David Rockefeller.
Rockefeller hired McCloy to lobby the Carter administration to let the Shah into the USA. After hundreds of thousands of dollars and months of work, McCloy didn't change Carter's position; but he did change his advisors' positions. At a big meeting, Carter stood alone. He then caved. But before he did, he turned and said, "Alright. But I wonder what you guys are going to advise me to do when they storm our embassy and take our employees hostage."
LBJ, RMN and McCloy completely reversed Kennedy's very wise and fair policy in the Middle East. And McCloy directly aided the fundamentalist explosion, which gave us Ronald Reagan.
If Rachel was not a dilettante, this is what she should be addressing. In books by Rakove and Muelhenbeck. But that will take another seven years I guess. I'll probably be dead by then.
The book was published in 2008. And the excellent Frank Rich broke the story about the doves in Obama's White House passing it around in 2009.
It is a good book. Here is my review: http://www.ctka.net/reviews/virtual_jfk_3.html
I mentioned it the night of the Jim Douglass, Lisa Pease, Oliver Stone talk.
But IMO, this issue has been decided, and to talk about this is really kind of a diversion. Why?
Because if Rachel was a real scholar, she would be talking about how Johnson and Nixon changed JFK's Middle East policy!! That is the real story. And its a direct analog not an indirect one.
Kennedy was not beholden to Israel, and was much more even handed with the moderate Arabs. Like Nasser and Sadat.
He was also against Saudi Arabia, and backed Nasser's importation of troops into Yemen to block Saudi expansionism. He also asked for a position paper on Iran to see if it was possible to get rid of the Shah and bring back Mossadegh. He worried that the extreme monarchies could lead to a fundamentalist revolution in the Middle East. And he brought this up back in 1957!! In his great Algeria speech. These policies were all reversed upon his death.
And guess what? He was right. Where did the explosion of fundamentalism happen? In Iran in 1979.
And who caused it? John McCloy. Mr. cover up on the JFK case. How did McCloy aid the rise of Moslem fundamentalism? By pimping for the real Chairman, David Rockefeller.
Rockefeller hired McCloy to lobby the Carter administration to let the Shah into the USA. After hundreds of thousands of dollars and months of work, McCloy didn't change Carter's position; but he did change his advisors' positions. At a big meeting, Carter stood alone. He then caved. But before he did, he turned and said, "Alright. But I wonder what you guys are going to advise me to do when they storm our embassy and take our employees hostage."
LBJ, RMN and McCloy completely reversed Kennedy's very wise and fair policy in the Middle East. And McCloy directly aided the fundamentalist explosion, which gave us Ronald Reagan.
If Rachel was not a dilettante, this is what she should be addressing. In books by Rakove and Muelhenbeck. But that will take another seven years I guess. I'll probably be dead by then.
