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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (940)	5/21/2003 12:10:21 PM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22250

Food for thought for the warmongers.... But Dallek also concludes that historians have underrated Kennedy's substantive achievements, particularly on foreign policy. He found a near-great president whose tough-mindedness, creativity and skepticism of his own generals helped defuse the most dangerous moment of the Cold War, the nuclear showdown over Soviet missiles in Cuba. If Kennedy had lived to have a second term, Dallek believes he would have avoided LBJ's escalation in Vietnam and the national nightmare that followed. And he might have sought a rapprochement with Fidel Castro, a figure who still bedevils Kennedy's successors. "It's true, without question, he built up the Green Berets as a counterinsurgency force" in Vietnam, Dallek said in an interview in his townhouse in northwest Washington, a view of leafy Rock Creek Park through the windows. "But he didn't want to get into an all-out conflict. He was terribly worried that we would get bogged down." In a previously unpublished memo from Kennedy to Defense Secretary Robert McNamara one week after the Cuban Missile Crisis, the president warned about the nationalistic fervor that foreign invaders can provoke. "I think we should keep constantly in mind the British in the Boer War, the Russians in the last war with the Finnish and our own experience with the North Koreans," he warned. Dallek says: "He has a historian's sense of what the dangers are." [...] usatoday.com