![]() ![]() It is a shame that this welcome antidote to JFK will not be as widely read as that film was seen. Chomsky’s reading of the scholarship on the American involvement in Southeast Asia ably demonstrates that Kennedy, like his predecessors, was committed to an increasing level of violence in Vietnam in particular and the developing world in general. Veteran critic/activist Chomsky ( Deterring Democracy ) analyzes the issue most prominently posed in Oliver Stones film JFK : was President Kennedy a. In this book, Chomsky debunks the idea, propagated most recently and successfully by Oliver Stone in the film JFK, that there was a plot to kill Kennedy, who, had he lived, would have pulled the United States out of Vietnam. ![]() Furthermore, Chomsky argues, the United States has enjoyed popular support for its actions overseas largely because it has indoctrinated its elites and masses. In his view, the United States’ biggest fear has never been the Soviet Union or international communism, but rather “ultranationalism” and the threats it poses to U.S. Chomsky cites evidence of pre- and post-Cold War activity to bolster his argument. foreign policy, within and beyond the boundaries of the Cold War, as a North–South rather than an East–West conflict. ![]() foreign policy in the Cold War, sees U.S. Noam Chomsky, at one time an astute critic of U.S. ![]()
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