April 03, 2006
A THOUSAND DAYS more...
Kennedy approached the Soviet Union... with considerable weariness over the rhetoric of the Cold War.The John Foster Dulles contrast between the God-anointed apostles of free enterprise and the regimented hordes of athiestic communism bored him...he could not utter without embarrassment the self-serving platitudes about the total virtue of one side and the total evil of the other.(p271)
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I wonder, considering the author, if that isn't pretty revisionist.
After all, Kennedy's the one who said, "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and the success of liberty. This much we pledge and more. ..."
That doesn't sound weary or ambivalent.
It could be revisionist. The copy I've got was published quite a while ago. Inaugural speeches are diferent to how actual policy is carried out in reality.
I don't know. I'm at the beginning. I've got the feeling I'm going to be quoting from this book a few more times as I wade through it. Its a big book for me and I struggled with it for a while.
Its a bit like Republican blogs- I avidly read the stuff which relates to foreign policy and internal humanitarian stuff and historical moments but I struggle with stuff about the personalities of internal politics.
I struggle with stuff about the personalities of internal politics.
Me too. I'm surprised at how unfamiliar British politics are.
a revolutionary conservative? I've only just got over the idea of gay conservatives.
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