[lbo-talk] Why not Paul

Michael Smith mjs at smithbowen.net
Tue Nov 29 19:48:43 PST 2011


On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:05:41 -0500 Bhaskar Sunkara <bhaskar.sunkara at gmail.com> wrote:


> And the coup of Arbenz in Guatemala...

Context seems to have been lost sight of here. The point was not to canonize Eisenhower, but to compare him to his successor; the starting point was somebody's observation that JFK just 'continued' Eisenhower's legacy. In fact it seems to me that Mattress Jack was unquestionably *worse* than Eisenhower, bad as the latter was.

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