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In reply to the discussion: GHW Bush, JFK's assassination, the CIA and drugs [View all]reteachinwi
(579 posts)but I will. ~20 years ago I read Edward Jay Epstein's Legend-The Secret World of Lee Harvey Oswald, some of Mark Lane's work, some of Jim Garrison's work, others. I didn't know what to think of them. Then I read Peter Wyden's Bay of Pigs coupled with Fletcher Prouty's The Secret Team and surmised that James Douglass thesis is (as you describe it) probably the best explanation of what happened. We Americans like to think of ourselves as apart from history, better than that, exceptional if you will. It can't be so. The men who did this have many antecedents. From Shakespeare's Julius Ceasar; "Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more". Quote (Act III, Scene II). From Richard the III; "The world is grown so bad, that wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch". Quote (Act I, Scene III). From the French Revolution's George Jaques Danton; "In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels." After the Bay of Pigs, when Kennedy refused air cover for the CIA's misadventure, it was determined that he had to go. We struggle still with the consequences.