"I am a jelly doughnut!"
Hardly qualifies him as an "idiot," I'd say.
That is not the title on the article.
But is he really worng?
How did “Rush is Wrong” (the original articles headline) become “Rush is an Idiot”??
Glad the moderators found this one and fixed it.
Why any Republican brings him up as a good example of a President is beyond comprehension.
—bflr—
Eisenhower built a Cuban refugee army, and a Tibetan refugee army. Kennedy abandoned both to their fates. The Tibetans were wiped out to a man. The Cubans were dropped off onto a beach with Castro waiting for them.
If you were one of the men tasked to train these men and prepare them for combat, you’d probably be pretty steamed.
Hmmm. wasn’t Eisenhower the one who ceded Cuba to the communists by stopping the sale of weapons to Cuba?
I don't think it's that he falls for anything but that he is less than scrupulous with facts when he wishes to make a point.
"I am a jelly doughnut!"
From 1945 on, the fact was that the U.S. military, even with allies like France and England (let alone a rearmed Germany) was vastly and overwhelmingly outnumbered on the ground in Europe. To raise the specter of atomic bombs flying over every touchpoint was not only dumb geo-politically, but it was lunacy. JFK made the best of a bad situation, turning a political and military reality on the ground into a massive propaganda victory for the U.S.
JFK authorized the use of herbicides in SE Asia in 1961. Nixon stopped their usage 10 tears later. But Nixon was the heavy, and JFK did it for the chuldren,/
I recall being very disappointed with JFK, he would go rattle off a speech some where, then,,,nothing, last you heard on the issue. A lot people I knew were like ,,whew, he’s gone in Nov. 1963.
