[lbo-talk] American Prospect Online - Dwight Macdonald

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Apr 18 14:44:01 PDT 2006


Carrol Cox wrote:


>I guess we're getting into trivia now, but I'm always delighted to find
>someone who shares my immense antipathy to John F. Kennedy and all his
>works. That is one of the reasons conspiracy theories on his
>assassination are so regressive: they obscure (even deny) his total
>commitment to whatever horrors were necessssary or useful for the
>prosecution of the Cold War.

Worse, they encourage loopy ideas like his assassination was the result of his alleged plan to withdraw from Vietnam. Noam Chomsky has shot that one to hell, but people believe it anyway. Kennedy was a dedicated cold warrior - and, if you listen to Larry Kudlow, the first supply sider.

Doug



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