[Vision2020] Presidential Rankings (2009)

[Kai Eiselein]

Sooooo, would this apply to those who condemn the use of nuclear bombs on 
Japan? Or the fire bombing of Germany?
Or, the actions Europeans took in the Americas after stumbling upon the 
contintents?
After all, there are those who do the same in those instances.
My comment wasn't so much anti-war as it was historical fact. For some 
reason Vietnam and Kennedy are kept conspicuously separated in history 
textbooks, even though Kennedy's actions led the U.S. directly into the 
Vietnam war.
On another note, it was Kennedy who signed legislation allowing U.S. 
companies to set up shop in foriegn countries without having to pay U.S. 
income taxes on their profits from those units. The idea was that by 
bringing jobs into countries that were at risk of falling to the commies, it 
would make communism less appealing. It was a logical move.
Unfortunately, an unintended consequence has been the wholesale migration of 
U.S. companies abroad.
How much howling from big biz do you think there would be if the law was 
repealed and they had to pay taxes on their foreign income?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth Marcy" <kmmos1 at verizon.net>
To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 1:00 PM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Presidential Rankings (2009)


> On Wednesday 18 February 2009 11:11:50 Kai Eiselein wrote:
>> Let's not forget JFK's additon of thousands of "advisers" to Vietnam that
>> directly preceded the full scale "police action".
>
> Yes, Kennedy sent combat troops to Vietnam in 1961, following the policy
> Eisenhower set in his first term of office to send advisers to South 
> Vietnam
> following the Vietnamese Nationalist (and Communist-led) Vietminh army's
> victory over the French at Dien Bien Phu in 1954. Don't forget that 
> recently
> Eisenhower had been Supreme Allied Commander of all European forces,
> successfully prosecuting World War II in Europe, before his promotion to
> Commander in Chief of all U.S. forces world-wide. So, attempting to pin
> today's anti-war sentiments on Navy veteran President Kennedy, who acted 
> less
> than a generation after the end of World War II, and less than a decade 
> after
> the Korean police action, in the wake of World War II commander 
> Eisenhower's
> policies, is to follow the historically dangerous practice of projecting
> modern attitudes backward onto different historical eras where those
> attitudes are most likely not applicable, nor likely appreciated by those
> still living who remember those days as clearly as some more recent ones.
>
>
> Ken
>
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