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The Ideal Man

the Tragedy of Jim Thompson and the American Way of War
Aug 25, 2013StarGladiator rated this title 0.5 out of 5 stars
"Joshua Kurlantzick is a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations." Gee whiz? No kidding? From that I won't suppose the author to be a complete idiot with his "silly history" treatise, but a purposeful and misleading type. His writing is disingenuous through and through, misrepresenting the Kennedy Administration (SOP for CFR fellows, don't you know?) although the author does mention, in almost an aside, just several (of the many) super-rich who happened to be affiliated with the OSS during WWII (Paul Mellon and J.P. Morgan's son) but leaves out a bunch of others! No, the decision to go with the dictators wasn't politically made, but came directly from the oligarchs and hegemons - - just as the overthrow of the democratically-elected president of Iran benefitted Rockefeller, Mellon, Rothschild (half owners of BP, and the other half officially owned by the British government), Kermit Roosevelt, who lead the CIA team in his overthrow - - now admitted to by the CIA - - became the VP of Gulf Oil [Mellon-owned]. The author neglects to mention numerous facts: that Averell Harriman was about to be canned by President Kennedy for his pro-hawk stance on Vietnam (Kennedy had sent out memos through both State and the Pentagon explaining the withdrawal of the 16,900 "advisors" before his reelection campaign, advisors which had originally been sent there by President Eisenhower! (Harriman's firing was even mentioned by Harriman in his official, authorized biography, "Spanning the Century.")