-----Original Message----- From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org] On Behalf Of Doug Henwood Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2013 7:20 PM To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Most Americans, including John Kerry, continue to believe Kennedy was victim of a conspiracy
On Nov 21, 2013, at 8:06 PM, Michael Smith <mjs at smithbowen.net> wrote:
> Not to be a spoilsport or anything, but why does anybody
> *care* who killed Kennedy?
Sport. He was a total scumbag, I agree.
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Indeed. But come to think of it, his inaugural address was a beautiful example of theory emerging from practice. It raised The Cold War waged by Truman & Eisenhower to the level of Theory.
There's a fine poem by a Palestinian poet whose name I forget just now with the line:
Where should we go after the last frontier.
A perfect encapsulation of Kennedy's Declaration of War on the "Third World."
Carrol