21-05-2018, 08:48 PM
Well said, Mr. DiEugenio, @ the irony of the Russians looking better than the "home team".
If anything, considering all the average citizen had read and heard during the Cold War period about the BIG BAD RED MENACE, no one would have ever believed for a second that it would be the US rather than their superpower rivals who'd actually overthrow a democratically elected government.
Sadly, once policy headed down that slippery slope all bets were off, and the dominoes would begin to fall...first, in the Southern Hemisphere, and, gulp, much closer to home in Dealey Plaza too. Who was it that said power corrupts...
At least the warmongering hawks were perceptive enough to know to keep the incoming administration in the dark for as long as they could. But, inevitably, push came to shove (see Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis), and these madmen wouldn't relinquish their nefarious grip on foreign-policy. Poor JFK, seated at the same table surrounded by sinister snakes sharpening their knives under the table.
Somewhere in the hereafter Thomas Jefferson is beside himself @ the nation he helped found actually overthrowing a democratically elected government. WTFudge.
If anything, considering all the average citizen had read and heard during the Cold War period about the BIG BAD RED MENACE, no one would have ever believed for a second that it would be the US rather than their superpower rivals who'd actually overthrow a democratically elected government.
Sadly, once policy headed down that slippery slope all bets were off, and the dominoes would begin to fall...first, in the Southern Hemisphere, and, gulp, much closer to home in Dealey Plaza too. Who was it that said power corrupts...
At least the warmongering hawks were perceptive enough to know to keep the incoming administration in the dark for as long as they could. But, inevitably, push came to shove (see Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis), and these madmen wouldn't relinquish their nefarious grip on foreign-policy. Poor JFK, seated at the same table surrounded by sinister snakes sharpening their knives under the table.
Somewhere in the hereafter Thomas Jefferson is beside himself @ the nation he helped found actually overthrowing a democratically elected government. WTFudge.