On Nov 22, 2013, at 4:21 AM, dperrin at comcast.net wrote:
> My fave assassination theory:
>
> "Perhaps one day Oswald will be recognized as a leftist who came to
> the conclusion that the only way to relieve the pressure on Cuba
> and obstruct the attempts to murder Castro was by killing President
> Kennedy. In this calculation he was cor rect.
> A year and a half after the killing in Dallas, Lyndon Johnson
> suspended the CIA's assassination bids.
> Oswald's ambush was one of the few effective assassinations in the
> history of such enterprises."
>
> Alexander Cockburn, 1993.
Another reason--beside his defense of the GPU's murders during the Spanish revolution--why Cockburn is so much worse than the abominable Hitchens.
Shane Mage
"scientific discovery is basically recognition of obvious realities that self-interest or ideology have kept everybody from paying attention to"