[marron]

Stories about his drug use and his other private sins need to be made public, not because they are terribly important, but because his enablers saw fit to hide them all these years.

But I am much more interested in tabling a real discussion, finally, about the assassination of President Diem, about the betrayal and subsequent slaughter of the Tibetan Army, and the betrayal of the Eisenhower's Cuban force, abandoned into the waiting hands of Castro's Army. These are subjects we have only barely begun to explore. I would like to see a 10-part miniseries on these aspects of Camelot. Camelot. Thats an Orwellian turn of phrase if ever there were one.

[Utah Girl]

Good points.

[AmericanVictory]

He started a trend of erratic personal decision-making in matters of strategic importance that ultimately led to the debacle of Bill Clinton. He made very bad decisions that led to the Berlin Wall, for example, which need never have been built. The hagiography over the "Cuban Missile Crisis", for another example, makes one want to puke. Consider something the hagiographers never mention. In exchange for the Soviets supposedly pulling their missiles out of Cuba, we pulled ours out of Turkey, which had given us control over the Soviets. That control was very effective. So by letting Castro go free and unchallenged Kennedy then had to give up our best control of Soviet behavior. Kennedy created a trend which was to culminate in Clinton, of creating problems and then posing heroically to "solve" the problems he had created.