[lbo-talk] American Prospect Online - Dwight Macdonald

[Michael Hoover]

>>> cbcox at ilstu.edu 04/18/06 5:06 PM >>>
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. His inaugural address should be seen as a
declaration of all-out war on the Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
Johnson indeed was a war criminal and a shit in many ways, but if we
were going to play around with lesser evils, LBJ was certainly the
lesser evil of the two.
Carrol
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ah come on, among other things, all jfk did was invade cuba, oversee 
dramatic military spending increase, initiate counter-insurgency in 
third world, send troops, er, advisers, to vietnam, play nuclear 
brinksmanship, impose wage controls on unions, oppose 35 hr work 
week, refuse to take action in support of civil rights, look the other 
way when civil rights workers were attacked...

that he pursued pro-corporate fiscal policies was a given, believe it was
bruce miroff in _pragmatic illusions_ who called u.s. prez 'chief stabilizer'...   
mh