This is an excellent podcast and reminder of what might have been. That our country has devolved into a permanent war economy, dependent on massive military budgets and the constant need for war is a tragedy that might have been avoided. How we get our country out of this quagmire is the challenge now. Too many segments of our society ha…
This is an excellent podcast and reminder of what might have been. That our country has devolved into a permanent war economy, dependent on massive military budgets and the constant need for war is a tragedy that might have been avoided. How we get our country out of this quagmire is the challenge now. Too many segments of our society have bought into this story: the media, the president, the Congress, and even most Americans who rarely, if ever, think about what has happened since the end of WWII and the creation of the covert apparatus that took the lives of these incredible leaders. I was heartened to hear that it was Adlai Stevenson who had advised Kennedy about how to negotiate with Krushchev. I think Stevenson was our last great diplomat. As Sachs remarked, we don't have diplomats anymore. We just have cheerleaders for more wars and a Congress afraid to challenge the status quo of the military-industrial-corportate insatiable war machine. Another author who has plumbed the history of the Kennedys and the Dulles brothers is David Talbot ("Brothers" and "The Devil's Chessboard").
This is an excellent podcast and reminder of what might have been. That our country has devolved into a permanent war economy, dependent on massive military budgets and the constant need for war is a tragedy that might have been avoided. How we get our country out of this quagmire is the challenge now. Too many segments of our society have bought into this story: the media, the president, the Congress, and even most Americans who rarely, if ever, think about what has happened since the end of WWII and the creation of the covert apparatus that took the lives of these incredible leaders. I was heartened to hear that it was Adlai Stevenson who had advised Kennedy about how to negotiate with Krushchev. I think Stevenson was our last great diplomat. As Sachs remarked, we don't have diplomats anymore. We just have cheerleaders for more wars and a Congress afraid to challenge the status quo of the military-industrial-corportate insatiable war machine. Another author who has plumbed the history of the Kennedys and the Dulles brothers is David Talbot ("Brothers" and "The Devil's Chessboard").