> The Vietnam death toll continues to mount into the present because of the chemical warfare that President Kennedy initiated there – even as he escalated American support for a murderous dictatorship to all-out attack, the worst case of aggression during Obama’s “seven decades.”
> Another “political persuasion” is imaginable: the outrage Americans adopt when Russia invades Afghanistan or Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait. But the secular religion bars us from seeing ourselves through a similar lens.
https://www.normanfinkelstein.com/chomsky-on-remembering/
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> .. “we’ve known this might be coming for a week,” Kennedy informed... To refuse public acquiescence would be difficult.. These were obsolete missiles.. slated for withdrawal, soon to be replaced by.. more lethal.. invulnerable #PolarisSubmarines. Kennedy recognized that he would be in an “insupportable position if this becomes [#Khrushchev’s] proposal,”.. because the #TurkishMissiles were useless and were being withdrawn anyway, and because “it’s gonna — to any.. rational man, it will look like a very fair trade.” #ChomskyOnKennedy #KennedyNuclearWar