Kennedy vs Johnson in the Third World

[Dawn Meredith]

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.

But there WAS an "advance (sic) plot to influence US foreign policy". Case in point Viet Nam.
There was no need to attack Cuba. They got what they wanted and still have it. JFK would have ended this.

Dawn

[Albert Doyle]

In Peter's wheels within wheels some people might have been led to believe the assassination was for Cuba. Others for the mob, and others for CIA power and the Cold War. And again others for business. Others for foreign policy. Probably the real reason was Kennedy was smart enough to see Drago's model and attack it from that angle. Those who were at the top of that power structure needed it stopped.