{"id":34800,"date":"2013-08-16T13:58:55","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T11:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/?p=34800"},"modified":"2013-08-16T13:59:47","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T11:59:47","slug":"taenk-hvis-en-anden-verden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/taenk-hvis-en-anden-verden\/","title":{"rendered":"T\u00e6nk hvis… (En anden verden)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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P\u00e5 Elvis Presleys d\u00f8dsdag melder sp\u00f8rgsm\u00e5let selvf\u00f8lgelig om hvad der ville v\u00e6re sket, hvis han ikke var d\u00f8d. En anden for tidligt afd\u00f8d amerikaner, der er skrevet meget om her p\u00e5 bloggen, er John F, Kennedy. I en interessant artikel i New Statesman giver de canadiske historikere James G Blight and Janet M Lang deres bud<\/a>, og det er interessant l\u00e6sning. Blight og Lang er forfattere bag flere b\u00f8ger om Kennedy-regeringen, senest en bog om Cuba-krisen, som vi nu har f\u00e5et et langt bedre indblik i takket v\u00e6re nu frigivne dokumenter fra dengang for 51 \u00e5r siden.<\/p>\n

Vi t\u00e6nker tit p\u00e5 Kennedy som en slags h\u00f8g takket v\u00e6re den mislykkede Svinebugt-invasion og vel til dels ogs\u00e5 p\u00e5 grund af Cuba-krisen, men det er interessant hvor konsekvent han faktisk, efter hvad vi i dag, sagde nej til de milit\u00e6re interventioner, hans r\u00e5dgivere slog til lyd for.<\/p>\n

JFK\u2019s well-documented record of his decisions on matters of war and peace is as astonishing as it is unambiguous. We now know that no American president was ever pressured more intensely or more often to take the US to war. His advisers lobbied him, attempted to intimidate him and schemed throughout his presidency to force him to authorise direct US military interventions.<\/p>\n

The pressure was most intense over Cuba (twice, in April 1961 and October 1962), Laos (spring 1961), the Berlin Wall (summer and fall 1961) and in South Vietnam (twice, November 1961 and October 1963). In each case, Kennedy successfully resisted their pressure to intervene militarily even though, on each occasion, intervening would have been politically popular, at least initially. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Blight og Langs konklusion er denne:<\/p>\n

If JFK had survived Dallas and served as US president until January 1969, the world would probably have become a safer, more peaceful place. It is even possible that the cold war would have been rolled back and headed for an amicable end by 1969. This conclusion has nothing to do with the myth of a Kennedy Camelot and everything to do with respect for the historical facts, as they have become available over the past quarter-century.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Min skepsis for amerikanske regeringer g\u00e5r vel aldrig over, men jeg ville alligevel hellere have haft at det havde v\u00e6ret Kennedy og ikke Reagan, der i amerikansk mytologi havde f\u00e5et rollen som pr\u00e6sidenten, der sluttede den kolde krig.<\/p>\n

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P\u00e5 Elvis Presleys d\u00f8dsdag melder sp\u00f8rgsm\u00e5let selvf\u00f8lgelig om hvad der ville v\u00e6re sket, hvis han ikke var d\u00f8d. En anden for tidligt afd\u00f8d amerikaner, der er skrevet meget om her p\u00e5 bloggen, er John F, Kennedy. I en interessant artikel i New Statesman giver de canadiske historikere James G Blight and Janet M Lang deres … L\u00e6s videre T\u00e6nk hvis… (En anden verden)<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n