Posted by
Jim McGriff Jr on Wednesday, October 22, 2008 8:41:20 PM
The media is touting Barack Obama as the reincarnation of John F. Kennedy. Obama is young, full of energy, new vision, great speaker; all that kind of push. He will meet with our enemies. Kennedy met with our cold war enemy, Khrushchev.
Kennedy was inaugurated on January 20, 1961. The Bay of Pigs invasion happened in April, 1961, a defeat. The invasion decision was a classic example of group think.
Kennedy and Khrushchev met in June, 1961. This meeting was a disaster for Kennedy and the US. Khrushchev thought Kennedy was a lightweight. This led to some actions by Khrushchev. On August 13, 1961, the Berlin wall was started. The Cuba missile crisis was in October, 1962. This is the closest the world has come to all out nuclear war. This happened because of one meeting in which our President John Kennedy was ill prepared.
Kennedy made his great, “ich bin ein Berliner” speech in Berlin on June 26, 1963. “I am a Berliner”, is quite a different statement than President Ronald Reagan’s speech of June 12, 1987, “tear down this wall”. Reagan’s speech was much more effective because Reagan had first established his credibility.
Let us not be duped by the media to follow an untried Barack Obama into battle with the enemies we have now. Obama wants to meet with our enemies. These enemies are not cold war warriors. Our Muslim enemies are in our face here and now, go anywhere, warriors with a bomb in their pocket.
Either we learn from history or we are bound to repeat it. Let’s be prudent.
Oscar James McGriff
Tuscaloosa, Alabama