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| zzzpeace@yahoo.com |
 Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 12:43 pm |
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THIRTEEN DAYS is the story of the Cuban Missile crisis from the point
of view of Presidential advisor Kenneth O'Donnell.
The Chiefs of Staff were anxious to take on the Soviets in a war they
assumed they could limit. The Soviets also have their own divisions in
policy with hawks and doves in the Politburo. The film exposes the
bitter rivalry between those who want military solutions and those who
want diplomatic ones with John Kennedy being indecisive between them,
because he was haunted by his reading of Barbara Tuchman's THE GUNS OF
AUGUST, an account of how both sides behaving in what at the time
appeared logical ways inexorably descended into the First World War.
Kennedy understood the fact that it could have happened with nuclear
missiles, this time.
Unfortunately, unlike the men who averted nuclear war with the Soviet
Union, the zealots who started the Iraq war have no sense of history,
and the invasion has predictably descended into what historian, David
Halberstam predicted, and you can read about that here:
http://surftofind.com/war
When you thoroughly examine all the evidence, especially what David
Halberstam said about the war in Iraq and the book he was planning to
write, it is sadly not possible to avoid the conclusion that, like
John F. Kennedy before him, David Halberstam is a victim of domestic,
cold war politics.
The timely death of David Halberstam is being called an accident, but
history strongly suggests otherwise.
Murder is not a spontaneous act. Murder is a premeditated act of
violence which is cloaked and disguised in alternative explanations
like "auto accident" in order to evade accountability. Like John F.
Kennedy before him, David Halberstam is a victim of domestic cold war
politics and this time, the murderers should not get away with it.
http://surftofind.com/lawyer |
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