Posted on 11/22/2001 8:52:10 AM PST by backhoe
This just in:
To: marshmallow
One thing to be said about the news coverage of the War on Terrorism - an item that seems to be conspicuous by its absence, there is virtually no mention anywhere that today is the 38th anniversary of the JFK assassination. The date of September 11, 2001 has finally eclipsed November 22, 1963.
2 posted on 11/22/01 12:35 PM Eastern by alloysteel
Post-Sept. 11 Crisis as Seen from Cloistered Convent; "The Illusion of Being Omnipotent".
Today is also my mother's birthday - I'd rather have that not be eclipsed by JFK tributes for once in my life.
Also, while I'm at it...
To all Irish Roman Catholics who revere the Kennedys in spite of the evidence: How about getting another "role model family" to look up to instead of the Kennedys? History is replete with other Irish/Catholic persons that are far more worthy of your attention. It might take a little more effort to do so, but I encourage you to do so.
Thomas Cahill's book "How the Irish Saved Civilization" would be a good start in your search for a better Irish icon than the Kennedys.
BTW - I'm Irish/Catholic, so save the venom. Even if I wasn't, the argument still stands on its own.
No matter how the history has been shaped since then - JFK was not the warm fuzzy anti-warrior we keep hearing about.
He made Indo-China a formal fight after years of embarassed low level "assistance" and he pretty much put LBJ into a position with no way out. It would be interesting to try picturing today's world had that aproach continued.
RFK was a jerk and his cabinet position was nepotism, but he didn't screw around with the "evil doers" of his day. What would immigration policies and policing of potential hijackers have looked like if he'd had a few more years?
For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing,
neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
So much for fame..........
I suspect that is why we still don't have relations with our third geographicaly closest country...
A man has simply got to have priorities.
Heck, X42 was only guilty of a personal peccadillo, (aka a blow job in the oval office!) and all that other stuff, you know...Perjury, Treason, and Murder were all the "fault" of the VWRC!
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