Friday, April 22, 2016

On the Fact that (According to Arthur Schlesinger's Book, "A Thousand Days") Bertrand Russell Once Said of JFK that He Was "Much More Wicked than Hitler"

Yeah, that Hitler-card sure does have a pedigree. Damn, huh?.......................................................................................................P.S. This of course isn't to say that guys like Russell, Pauling, Halberstam, and Lamont didn't have some legitimate concerns (the fact that the Vietnam conflict had quagmire written all over it, the fact that the Diem government in South Vietnam was at least in the ballpark in terms of harshness with that of Ho Chi Minh's in the North, the fact that the Bay of Pigs was at the very minimum ineptly executed, etc.) but, come on here, Hitler? Really?

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