Or in this case: multiple wrongs do not make something right.
"Rethinking Camelot is a thorough analysis of John F. Kennedy's role in the U.S. invasion of Vietnam and a probing reflection on the elite political culture that allowed and encouraged the Cold War. In it, Chomsky dismisses effort to resurrect Camelot—an attractive American myth portraying JFK as a shining knight promising peace, fooled only by assassins bent on stopping this lone hero who would have unilaterally withdrawn from Vietnam had he lived. Chomsky argues that U.S. institutions and political culture, not individual presidents, are the key to understanding U.S. behavior during [the] Vietnam [War]."
-https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/629-rethinking-camelot
Let's assume Chomsky's analysis is correct and that he has no agenda of his own in writing this book. What justifies these intell!gence agencies operating with no oversight, no accountability, and no mercy? Even if we assume JFK was as much a warhawk as those before and after, which is possible, how does that absolve these agencies from their sins? Also, how does it change the litany of people who did not like Kennedy and benefited from his absence?
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Links:
https://www.amazon.com/Crossfire-Plot-That-Killed-Kennedy/dp/0465031803
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/13979216
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jamiekirchick/seymour-hersh-assassination-of-jfk-was-form-of-l-55m2
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/97/11/30/reviews/971130.30powerst.html?module=inline
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/galbraith-exit-strategy-vietnam/
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/chomsky-galbraith-letters-vietnam-jfk-kennedy/
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