Mark quotes me and says,
“Churchill promised two million Soviets who fought against Stalin that if they surrendered to the Allies,t ehy woud be protected. As soon as they did so, he turned them over to Stalin…”
Don’t forget Saint John Kennedy who did something similar in Cuba. And I would imagine his tosspot brother, Edward, uttered similar words of promise to his nubile ally Mary Jo Kopechne just before he swam to shore and left her to the mercy of the gods. Well maybe that last comparison was a stretch but you get the point…
Comment by Mark
MY REPLY:
I have unending psychological scars from what Saint John the Kennedy did in Cuba. I KNEW the people he betrayed, I KNEW the man who signalled back, when air cover was withdrawn, “You have betrayed us.”
I can FEEL Mary Jo Kopechne being left to die in that suffocation.
But I also know that she worked with Kennedy to destroy us. I do not pity her becauswe she did not pity us.
Ruthless, right?
How can I explain that none of this is theoretical to Ole Bob?
When a Kennedy staffer, the day after Chappaquiddick, was flown over the site, before the press knew about it, he said, “This is the end of the Kennedy presidency.”
That was reported by the press later.
Not, “I can feel how horrible it was to be suffocating in a car under the water, moving to where the air was, and knowing you were going to die.”
The end of the Kennedy presidency was the only point mentioned.
I am a ruthless old bastard.
But how can I tell anybody that that is coldness beyond even my ken?
#1 by joe rorke on 02/03/2006 - 8:03 pm
You can tell that to Joe because he knows exactly what you are talking about. Anybody that can’t understand that has had a pretty dull life. In my opinion.
#2 by Mark on 02/04/2006 - 11:35 pm
“I am a ruthless old bastard.”
Aren’t we all though? How many of us have not held similar hatred for a percieved enemy?