Interesting. Liberalism has been going through a similar process.
Posted on 08/26/2006 5:15:03 PM PDT by Bangupjob
A crisis that he created by placing the missles in Turkey and resolved by bending over, grabbing his ankles, and giving Khrushcheev everything he (Khrushchev) wanted by removing the missles from Turkey and and agreeing not to ever interfere with Castro again?
I well rememer having grade school classes in the boiler room room as JFK traded American missle bases in the middle east for a couple of cases of Cohibas.
PS. Also, it was Kennedy's initiatives that culminated in the Civil Rights Acts under the LBJ admin; the Johnson tax reforms were also plotted out and initiated by JFK. Finally, I wouldn't call it "great" but certainly many Leftists would: It was Kennedy's "New Frontier" that morphed into Johnson's "Great Society"..
He was Captain of a boat that was rammed and cut in half by an enemy ship with half the speed of his boat.
Oh, wait a minute...
Be nice now, his chaufeur was probably driving.
I read somewhere, once upon a time, that Nimitz...Halsey...
one of the very senior admirals stated that if Kennedy had been under his command, he (Kennedy) would have been court martialed for that incident.
The Maya culture was already long gone by that time.
Interesting. Liberalism has been going through a similar process.
News was slow to get around??
I really should read that book, I suppose, but I've read enough about it, to know I think his assertions are B.S.
If you haven't read Carnage and Culture, by Victor Davis Hanson, I highly recommend it. His theses for why Western militaries dominate the battlefield are pretty spot-on, by my read. Blows Diamond out of the water.
If there had been some excellent handling of the Bay of Pigs, there wouldn't have been a Cuban Missile Crisis.
Talk about 'obscene', he is disgusting!
I think Kerry and Gore helped them figure that out.
>>Tax cuts.
OK, that's one. And THAT'll make a Lefties head explode.
The Japanese were in a state of utter disbelief because two of their cities had been hit with a weapon no one had ever seen before. When the Emperor came on the radio to announce the surrender, it was the first time most Japanese had ever heard his voice.
They had massive amounts of financial and technical help to re-build their country and economy; quite a different situation than the Mayans. Any disappointment in the nature of their Emperor was mitigated by the efforts they had to put into re-building their country and their lives.
Excellent...E-X-C-E-L-L-E-N-T.
I know, but I couldn't resist the metaphore...
Compared to what libeals and democrats have to offer, Bush does seem like a God.
Kind of reminds me of the ancient Jews, they wanted a King, like other cultures, instead of the rule of the judges, like their God had instructed. So, they got a King, it was all down hill from there.
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