19-09-2011, 11:25 PM
(This post was last modified: 20-09-2011, 03:26 AM by Magda Hassan.)
They both displayed courage. Certainly K got the better deal. JFK got a bullet and Nikita got to retire. I think things were less complicated on the Soviet side whose defence policy was always based on the very real possibility that the US would be psychotic enough to use nuclear weapons against them and who were constantly working to undermine them, subvert them, infiltrate them. There was never any intention to invade the US. Just US propaganda for their own citizens to be kept scared. The Soviets always knew they were in the cross-hairs and they knew there were different factions in government with varying degrees of sanity. I don't think JFK saw the degree to which others actually were in control and how little he really did control. Nor did he really know the pure unspeakablesness of what was around him. The Soviets did. Like a man lost in a forest unable to see for the trees though it did become more apparent as time went on. Time ran out for him before he was able to fundamentally deal with it.
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"He would, wouldn't he?" Mandy Rice-Davies. When asked in court whether she knew that Lord Astor had denied having sex with her.
“I think it would be a good idea” Ghandi, when asked about Western Civilisation.