tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post6382063808690592443..comments2024-02-21T12:11:32.886-05:00Comments on Bats Left/Throws Right: Hell, If Newt Gingrich Is An Historian, Everybody's An HistorianJames Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-12136773511005070402011-12-06T08:33:26.467-05:002011-12-06T08:33:26.467-05:00once again: Amen, Doghouse...pithy summarization o...once again: Amen, Doghouse...pithy summarization of JFK, and well said-- the poppy bit. Douthat? god help us-- in that, as with "Eff" Will, he puts some sort of sheen on stupiditymark dragohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00783097996576737278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-23781179578931460882011-12-02T21:30:50.245-05:002011-12-02T21:30:50.245-05:00If memory serves, more Americans died in the VN Wa...If memory serves, more Americans died in the VN War under Nixon than under Kennedy or LBJ. Also, under Nixon it threatened to broaden into a much more regional conflict as he dragged peripheral countries into the conflict and destabilized already unstable governmentsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-64033315811277334242011-11-29T07:59:16.176-05:002011-11-29T07:59:16.176-05:00I envision Ross writing such stuff while sitting g...I envision Ross writing such stuff while sitting glumly in an overloaded Depends diaper. Explains a lot.heydavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15509102502417886790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-10871647645548530102011-11-28T20:39:05.960-05:002011-11-28T20:39:05.960-05:00My helping of obsequies came with entirely too lit...My helping of obsequies came with entirely too little infusion of poppy.El Manquécitonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-32789597054130622202011-11-28T16:34:02.858-05:002011-11-28T16:34:02.858-05:00Yeah, it's more than unlikely that Kennedy wou...Yeah, it's more than unlikely that Kennedy would have refrained from escalating our overt military involvement in Vietnam. Pundits tend to forget that the early 60's was Cold War time, and jumping into this particular anti-commie hot water was extremely popular with most Americans at the time when it looked easy and not at all like quicksand. Kennedy would have had to buck a lot of publicR. Porrofattonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-11648895529231446372011-11-28T16:18:27.230-05:002011-11-28T16:18:27.230-05:00AAKKK! I find his books... etc.AAKKK! I <i>find</i> his books... etc.Kathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03176801494652946278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-52535882965534885122011-11-28T16:17:11.233-05:002011-11-28T16:17:11.233-05:00King writes a good yarn, my Dad used to say. Many ...King writes a good yarn, my Dad used to say. Many of his books are what women call "Comfort Reads". Salem's Lot was really scary; it borrowed a bit from Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House", but Mr. King is open about that.<br /><br />I fing his books to be quintessentially American. Future historians will learn a lot about American culture and thought Kathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03176801494652946278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-83739708439834144592011-11-28T14:53:12.679-05:002011-11-28T14:53:12.679-05:00Luckily, we're beyond that.
No Democratic pol...Luckily, we're beyond that.<br /><br />No Democratic politician today would be forced** to commit to attacking <a href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/10/elizabeth-warrens-job-plan-war-with-iran.html" rel="nofollow">the Likud party's enemies</a>...<br /><br />** Assuming he or she wants to win an election.<br />~ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©https://www.blogger.com/profile/06252371815131259831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-9472608900342315212011-11-28T14:47:51.801-05:002011-11-28T14:47:51.801-05:00"and it's highly unlikely: Johnson knew t..."and it's highly unlikely: Johnson knew the war was doomed before he escalated it; the anti-Commie domestic politics of the day demanded it, especially of a Democratic president"<br /><br />and tragically, I hazard to argue, Kennedy, trapped in the group think of his day, was sacrificed in that toxic brew, but that sacrifice brought no salvation to the 58,000 who would follow prairie curmudgeonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-17527036778723442492011-11-28T13:44:35.576-05:002011-11-28T13:44:35.576-05:00and it's highly unlikely: Johnson knew the war...and it's highly unlikely: Johnson knew the war was doomed before he escalated it; the anti-Commie domestic politics of the day demanded it, especially of a Democratic president) <br /><br />~~~<br /><br />That. <br /><br />I slogged through the best and the brightest and was left with (or Helberstam left me with) the spirit of that but I was never able to articulate it so succinctly.Davenoreply@blogger.com