Traditionally Congress avoided to play a prominent role onto the world stage. There was the rescue mission in World War I to assist Europe remaining free from German domination. There were occasional forays into problem areas south of the Rio Grande. How did this come about? Until World War II Washington remained largely focussed on itself. Today at the start of the 21st century the United States of America has become the sole Rogue Super Power in the world. Self as the most freeloving and democratic of nations symbolized by the statue of the famous lady at the entrance to Manhattan.
Since the Declaration of Independence America presented it. That is to say if the same standards were observed for us and Yugoslav leaders. By today's standards this one planned murder of a foreign head of state would have landed John Kennedy in the dock together with Slobodan Milosevic at the War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague. It was for instance to remain unknown to the public, that the President had used a mistress on a mission to the Chicago underworld to arrange for the Cuban leader's early death. Nobody however knew at the time of the many shady deals and outright criminal decisions, he and his White House team had taken, during close to three years in power. jfk was nevertheless seen by most people as a hero. All these dramatic events reached a climax with the assassination of the President himself on November 22, 1963. Then in the early sixties serious thought was given in Washington to start an all out ground war in Vietnam to prevent Ho Chi-minh from taking the South. However the us has continued ever since to strangle this small island 150 miles from the coast of Florida by an inhuman, totally illegal economic blockade, which to begin with flies into the face of the most elementary principles of basic human rights.
The Soviets withdrew the missiles, but Kennedy by mutual agreement promised never to attack Cuba again. Next followed the Cuban missile crisis, with an eyeball to eyeball confrontation between the Kremlin and the White House. The Kremlin promptly erected the Berlin wall. The summit with Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna was a flop. When it failed jfk sought cooperation from the Mafia to have Fidel Castro removed from the scene. First jfk and the cia directed mercenaries to invade Cuba. The early sixties were tumultuous years for the usa.
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