Yeah, I think that knee-jerk is going to be with me my whole life.
"Superior World Citizen" is not a moniker that belongs to Putin, but it certainly did belong to Khrushchev.
I know that, especially for a Democrat, criticizing his holiness John F. Kennedy is political blasphemy in the extreme, but I'll always be grateful (as should every living person on the globe) that when it came to nuclear weaponry, Khrushchev demonstrated vastly superior, infinitely more sane leadership.
I wonder, had he not been martyred, would more Americans see JFK as the rabid anti-Communist (dare I say Bircher?) that he was and scorn the Bay of Pigs and the missile fiascos? It has always bugged me that we treat JFK as some kind of legendary hero who "kept missiles out of Cuba!!!11ONE" when he was just YAN neocon from the Worthless Thumb willing to blow the entire world up to maintain military superiority and first strike capability against the CCCP with no fear of any retaliatory capability. The ridiculousness of the fabled "missile gap" that was bandied about by him and Tricky Dick during the campaign is laughable now, but that's the MIC propaganda both were spewing at the time and a lot of people believed it.
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It's mourning in America again.