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In reply to the discussion: America is Dead [View all]deutsey
(20,166 posts)You're just putting it in its larger, historical context.
Now, I'm not trying to one-up you here, but I believe this can even be traced back further to the failed "business coup" against FDR that Smedley Butler exposed in the '30s.
The interests behind that attempt to replace FDR with Butler went on become the MIC during WWII (wheeling and dealing with the Nazis as well as the Allies) and were involved after the war in the black ops activities around the world that benefited it geopolitically and financially (Iran, Guatemala, Cuba, Congo, etc.).
Although I don't think Eisenhower's hands were entirely clean, he did see the danger the MIC/CIA posed to America and tried to warn us. With JFK, it's well-documented that he constantly butted heads with the MIC, threatened to smash the CIA, and was hated for what happened in the Bay of Pigs, his efforts to pull troops out of Vietnam, and his behind-the-scenes talks with Krushchev and Castro to thaw out the Cold War (I base a lot of this on James Douglass's book JFK and the Unspeakable).
I don't think JFK was a saint, but I do think he posed a genuine political threat to the MIC and that they were concerned about his re-election. In my theory (and that's all this is based on the research I've done) JFK was taken out by the "Murder, Inc." crowd in a more effective way than the "business coup" could do to FDR in the '30s.