« The Internet's for commies | Main | The Futures Meme » Hidden HistoryRU Sirius interviews David Talbot about his book Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years, in which he chronicles the "the hostility that existed between the Kennedy brothers and their own military, intelligence and enforcement agencies" while JFK was president. Is there any substance to conspiracy theories about the two Kennedy assassinations? Talbot thinks so – and he suggests that there will be tension between any progressive president and the military-industrial complex. [Link] I think they were trying to sandbag him. They knew he was young and inexperienced. According to the CIA's own internal history of the Bay of Pigs, which was released and de-classified in 2005, they knew that it would fail. They knew that their own motley brigade of Cuban exiles weren't sufficient to defeat Castro, and they thought that Kennedy's hand would be forced to send in the Marines and Air Force once these guys were pinned down on the beaches. But he didn't. He was very loath to widen the war. He knew — as the CIA itself later determined in an intelligence estimate — that if we were to do that, it would end up like what we're seeing today in Iraq. U.S. forces would have quickly swept aside Castro's military, they'd have marched on to Havana and then they would've gotten bogged down in a long and bloody occupation. jon posted this at 7:49 AM |
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