Tag Archives: kennedy

Sun Tzu

WaPo Reporter: JFK ‘The Flat-Out Absolute Worst U.S. President Of The 20th Century’

Posted by Sun Tzu Jul 19th 2011 at 9:46 am in Foreign Policy, History | Comments(96)
Tom Ricks is no conservative.  He was a military reporter for the Washington Post and describes himself here as the grandson of Democratic Party politicians in Massachusetts. He has this to say about Camelot in Foreign Policy: “As I studied the Vietnam war over the last 14 months, I began to think that John F. Kennedy probably was [...]
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Taylor Dinerman

Defense Policy and the Elections of 1984, 2010 and 2012

Posted by Taylor Dinerman Nov 9th 2010 at 12:59 pm in Afghanistan, Congress, Cuba, Economy, Iran, Obama, Politics, Russia, Weapons | Comments(54)
The comparison between the elections of 1982 and 2010 makes for an interesting contrast. In 1982 Ronald Reagan’s GOP lost 26 seats in the House but kept control of the Senate. The Republicans lost at a time of high unemployment and an inflation rate that seemed out of control. By 1984 the economy was looking [...]
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Humberto Fontova

The Kennedy-Nixon Debates: JFK Lied, Cubans Died

Posted by Humberto Fontova Sep 30th 2010 at 6:17 am in Cuba, History, Politics | Comments(35)
Last week in the New York Times JFK speechwriter and adviser Ted Sorensen commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy/Nixon debates. “When Kennedy Met Nixon: The Real Story,” reads the op-ed’s title. Turns out, however, that the “real story” as “revealed” by Sorensen is identical to the one filtered through the MSM for the past fifty [...]
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Kent Clizbe

‘Good War’ Counter-Insurgency Rx—Colonize or Go Home (Part 2)

Posted by Kent Clizbe Sep 9th 2010 at 10:01 am in Afghanistan, Iraq, Obama, Politics, Strategy | Comments(20)
Read part I of this post here. Another highly successful counter-insurgency occurred in Hungary in 1956. Hungary was occupied by the Soviet Union after WWII. After a typical communist charade of free elections, the Hungarian government became a de facto colony of the Soviet Union. The USSR controlled the government and its [...]
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Humberto Fontova

Fidel Castro Predicts Nuclear War

Posted by Humberto Fontova Jul 21st 2010 at 11:37 am in Border Security, Cuba, Foreign Policy, History, Israel, Nuclear Proliferation, Politics, Russia | Comments(24)
The dictator who came the closest in history to igniting a nuclear war made several public appearances this week to predict imminent nuclear war. The cataclysm he craved in Oct. 1962 will erupt, he warned on Cuban TV this week, when the Israelis and their Yankee vassals, provoke Iran in the straits of Hormuz. That’s not [...]
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John Donovan

NASA: Oh, How We’ve Fallen

Posted by John Donovan Jul 7th 2010 at 5:10 pm in Featured Story, Military Technology, Politics, Strategy | Comments(55)
How low has dipped the inspiring rhetoric of the party of John Kennedy in terms of lofty goals and ideals? Kennedy said in his speech to a Joint Session of Congress in May 1961: “First, I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the [...]
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