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Politics : Westi's Wild Ride -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sandintoes who wrote (11502)	6/9/2005 11:10:14 AM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12762

You mean "had he lived"? I think he has been underestimated since his death because the anti-American left needed to co-opt a symbol, and his two brothers' left wing rhetoric, meshing as it did with the emerging anti-American media, allowed the domestic enemy to capture JFK for over 30 years (until they tossed him to the dogs in their insane attempts to defend Clinton.) So, had he lived, he either would have abandoned S. Vietnam as a bad job, or destroyed N. Vietnam and stopped the Soviet third world expansion cold. Either chioce would have been far better than the actual history. Martin Luther King was lucky enough to die before he could make a fool of himself ("reverend" Jackson had to do that FOR him.) But JFK might have surprised the skeptics and been the president-instead of Nixon-who turned the Cold War around, and set us on course for Reagan's great victory over the SU...