Sen. John F. Kennedy visting Oak Ridge National Lab. 2-24-1959, 59-152-5 DOE photo by Ed Westcott
At The Future of Freedom Foundation, Jacob G. Hornberger explains the hatred of Russia that is demanded of both American citizens and officials. He writes:
If there is one thing clear about the U.S. national-security establishment’s pro-empire, interventionist foreign policy, it is that Americans are expected to maintain a deeply seated, permanent hatred of Russia. Woe to any public official who violates that sacred foreign-policy principle.
Imagine if some prominent member of Congress suddenly called for the lifting of all U.S. economic sanctions, tariffs, and trade restrictions against Russia. Even worse, imagine if he or she actually called for establishing normal, peaceful, and friendly relations with Russia.
No one can reasonably deny that U.S. officials, the Pentagon, the CIA, the NSA, the U.S. mainstream press, and U.S. interventionists would go ballistic. They would brand that member of Congress as an appeaser, a coward, a Russia-lover, a Putin apologist, and even a traitor. If that member of Congress stuck by his guns and continued making the case for befriending Russia, they would do everything within their power to destroy him or her.
After all, that’s precisely what they did to President Kennedy when he declared an end to America’s mindset of permanent hatred for Russia and declared that the United States would henceforth have normalized and friendly relations with Russia. They went after him with a vengeance. After all, Kennedy was threatening not only the ever-increasing power and largess of the military-industrial complex, he was threatening the justification for the very existence of a national-security state form of governmental structure.
Don’t believe me? Take a look at this flier and this newspaper advertisement in the Dallas Morning News that were being distributed and displayed in Dallas on the day that Kennedy was assassinated. They perfectly reflect the deep anti-Kennedy hatred that essentially matched the depth of the anti-Russia hatred. It was that deep anti-Russia, anti-Kennedy hatred that led Kennedy’s enemies within the national-security establishment to bring an end to what they were convinced was the gravest threat to national-security in our nation’s history — that is, a president whose policies were inexorably leading to a total communist takeover of America. See FFF’s book JFK’s War with the National Security Establishment: Why Kennedy Was Assassinated by Douglas Horne, who served on the staff of the Assassination Records Review Board.
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