That's amazing to me, that you were there to hear him and remember it. He's one politician I would have loved to listen to firsthand. He seemed to say a lot of very controversial things, like when he spoke out against religious involvement in politics and named the religious groups very specifically... he was either really dumb or very brave... I imagine the latter. So do you think in this case he was maybe a bit too paranoid, or just mistaken?
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I'm not about to start chasing down every vocally supportive American I run into online to wag my finger in their face and make sure they're doing their part. Not meaning any disrespect... this thing is just difficult enough to deal with already, without running around like a paranoic the way I see some doing. I've seen groups of Americans putting in the effort to organize themselves in order to protest, and I've seen them showing up to help support us as our friends, and that's good enough for me. I thank them for any sincere effort.
What I'm trying to get at is 1) Exactly what this thing is that JFK was talking about; and 2) Whether this precise thing has continued to exist since JFK's time up to today. With the very elaborate way JFK was speaking, it sounds to me like it had to involve more than just the Soviets, and not like something that would have easily and suddenly died off. But I suspect you must be right, that the Soviets were and obviously are significantly involved still. Maybe I'm just asking an impossible question.
Sorry, do you mean you disagreed with what JFK was saying, that you didn't believe him?
If he was talking about nothing more than the Soviet Union, why didn't he simply say 'we are opposed around the world by the Soviet Union'? Seems like a very complicated way of saying Soviet Union. And no, the schools I went to didn't teach about covert global conspiracies, the likes of which John F. Kennedy was clearly warning us against.
So you're saying JFK was referring to the CIA when he talked about a "monolithic and ruthless conspiracy" from around the world?
It's been super encouraging to have Americans consistently show up as our friends to voice their support. Otherwise, I'd probably be thinking the entire U.S. is against us.
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The world suddenly seems so much smaller.
Otherwise they'd be spineless floppy people.
I guess mine would have to be a pineapple pizza.
I can see that... it would be an easy mistake for anyone to make. Still, there are an awful lot of coincidences between what he said, what we see in fact taking place today, and that he was ultimately assassinated. Because of all that, I can't help but believe a lot of what he said.