Blind Faith?

I said right from the start that I would criticise any politician who I believe behaved dishonourable. I would not find grace or favour with any one nationality, as in my view dishonest politicians of any nationality should be exposed. There has been a radical change of behaviour between my generation as opposed to my fathers generation. My fathers generation was to accept the word of our leaders as always being truthful and always having authority. This even spilled over to the relationships formed with the medical profession. Poorly educated my fathers generation was always in awe of any professional educated man. When the doctor diagnosed he must be right and often this resulted in unquestioning acceptance. My generation is far better educated, understands freedom of speech and is not slow to use it as I have demonstrated in these few articles written over the last few weeks. I do not believe in "Blind Faith" and if someone wishes to have me accept his views, then he must make every effort to make me believe. Gone are the days when leaders are revered just because they hold a certain position.

President Kennedy was in my view totally undeserving of the history that has been written about him. To become president requires great wealth & being borne into the Kennedy family with all its wealth and political ambitions made him the obvious choice for the job.. He became president almost as a birth right not because of any superior qualities that made him right for the job. He was not in office long before he was assassinated & I cannot help thinking that a longer stay in office would have exposed better the nature of this man.

In the early sixties, The American government stepped up the Anti- communist propaganda to fever pitch. I saw Government inspired commercials on American TV showing a paper boy on his bicycle as the air raid siren sounds heralding a nuclear attack. This was supposed to be educational & this young boy rolls off his cycle and underneath this wooden house raised above ground on stilts. Not only would this action be totally useless in the event of a nuclear strike, the Kennedy administration knew it was impossible for Russia to strike at America at that time. At the time of the so called Cuba Crisis Kennedy & the Russians were playing a game on the world stage. It was known that Russia had only a total of three missiles and these were crude and had never been tested. Chances are none would have worked and the guidance systems had less sophistication than a modern day pocket calculator

So what were these world leaders thinking of as they played this silly game trying to scare the population that WW3 was just about to break out between the super powers and this was to be nuclear. The simple truth was whilst both super powers were present with any sort of nuclear capability then no hostilities would occur. This posturing on the world stage was for the folks back home and had no foundation in fact as the historical papers now prove. It was on elaborate lie to keep the populations under control and to justify increasing the defence budget… Peace time threats or actual war always benefits the Arms industry and most care not to whom they sell. Maybe Kennedy wanted the focus to be removed from his private life. It is my firm belief that if Kennedy had been scrutinised to the same degree as Clinton then the truth would have been there to see. Remember in the Kennedy Era no one looked into the presidency as they do today. Kennedy's time in office was easy compared to Nixon who grappled with the Vietnam problem daily. Kennedy's crisis was always engineered and never real.

I am of the firm opinion that mutual respect between the two super powers of America & Russia has substantially ensured world peace since 1946. These super powers cannot be equalled and as long as they held this ultimate deterrent, cannot be challenged. I always thought it was a shame that the in-built distrust between these countries made it impossible for them to work together to stop the many minor conflicts that have occurred during this time. If only the Kennedy era had spent some time building bridges the subsequent outcomes could have been different.