MB Civic

“Gen. Douglas MacArthur told another young president in April 1961: ‘Anyone wanting to commit American ground forces to the mainland of Asia should have his head examined.’ When JFK’s top military advisers, critical of his reluctance, virtually called him a traitor – for pursuing a negotiated solution to the fighting in Laos, for example – Kennedy would tell them to convince Gen. MacArthur first, and then come back to him … Can’t say I actually KNEW Jack Kennedy, but it was he who got so many of us down here to Washington to explore what we might do for our country. Kennedy resisted the kind of pressures to which President Obama has now succumbed [re Afghanistan]. (There are even some, like Jim Douglass in his book ‘JFK and the Unspeakable,’ who conclude that this is what got President Kennedy killed)” – McGovern, ex-CIA analyst under Reagan and Bush I .. read more