Casual readers probably concluded that George W. Bush's recent "failures" have prompted someone like Brent Scowcroft to speak up and show him where he's gone wrong. But, since the New Yorker interview with Scowcroft was most likely conducted some time ago, its publication now may be entirely co-incidental and actually indicates a dissatisfaction with how the current crew in the White House is managing the world that's been festering for some time.
Now, Melvin Laird is coming out with a very long piece in "Foreign Affairs" in which he explains that we got it all wrong about Vietnam and, of course, he's going to set us right by telling us that it was all about spreading democracy way back then and Richard Nixon was actually to blame because he failed to get the Congress to keep doling out the scheckles until the job was done.
So, it might seem fair to conclude that the people who have been in the bowels of the government all along, making policy while the politicians honored the dictum that "partisanship stops at the water's edge," have called for re-enforcements from the original architects of the notion that America is destined to rule the world. Regardless of whether the world wants to be ruled by America or the majority of Americans are inclined in that direction.
Until I learned that President Kennedy feared that he would be impeached, if he didn't demonstrate toughness vis a vis the Soviet Union, and then discovered that he had been double-crossed by the people whom he had charged with keeping the missiles out of Turkey and had to strike a secret deal with Khrushchev to get rid of the ones in Cuba, I never suspected that his peace initiatives may have prompted his assassination. Nor that Nixon's agreeing to remove American forces from Vietnam prompted his betrayal and being set up for removal by impeachment--no doubt a better alternative than the Kennedy solution.
When you consider how many peace-makers have been eliminated through assassination it's quite startling. There's a fellow, Lloyd deMause, who's got a theory that nut-cases are influenced by rumors of assassination
http://www.psychohistory.com/htm/eln01_leader.html
Perhaps that's true for those who miss. The successes smack of expert organization which finds it convenient to set some nut-case up.
If Kennedy made a deal with Khrushchev and pledged to leave Cuba alone, what could have been Oswald's motivation?
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