Iraq unravels!

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by Ike Bana

Your first comment is an interesting one. I often wonder, had Kennedy not been murdered, what would have happened over the rest of his time in office, and what would have been his legacy. He had bought into the "domino" theory as far as I could tell, and I suspect he would have behaved much the same as Johnson did. It wouldn't have been pretty, and probably would have soured me on American politics even worse than Johnson and Nixon did.

I think it's more likely that the MID ordered the hit on Kennedy because they knew he wouldn't escalate the war.