re: #276 Killgore Trout

Oliver Stone is making the rounds on the interview circuit promoting his revised history of the US and some JFK conspiracy thing he did. It seems much of his motivation is rehabilitating the JFK. Stone sees JFK as some sort of progressive peacenik hero who didn’t want any conflict and wanted to align the US with the Soviets. He’s an odd dude.

That wasn’t JFK, not at all. I wonder how Stone rationalize Kennedy ordering Diem of South Vietnam overthrown and killed. That wasn’t the act of a president who wanted disengagement.

Stone error is his inability to accept the facts at the heart of the matter: John F. Kennedy sought to prevent communism from expanding where possible and expel communists from power where possible. In pursuing these goals he drew the ire of a communist named Lee Harvey Oswald. Oswald decided to kill Kennedy in order to cause the US to take its CIA-lead pressure off of Cuba.