CIA torture report

[BTExpress]

We're so bad we've lost "Gorby." That's almost as bad as losing Cronkite.

http://time.com/3630352/mikhail-gorbachev-vladimir-putin-cold-war/

 

[Morris816]

The bottom line is that we won't see Obama... or any other President, for that matter... dare to condemn what happened, and prefer to sweep it under the rug, because the next thing you know, questions will be raised as to how much power ANY President will be allowed to have to decide what those in the executive branch are allowed to do to carry out foreign policy. This has been a problem arguably since Truman was president, definitely the case since LBJ was President, and has only grown ever since.

 

[GoochMan]

The bottom line is that we won't see Obama... or any other President, for that matter... dare to condemn what happened, and prefer to sweep it under the rug, because the next thing you know, questions will be raised as to how much power ANY President will be allowed to have to decide what those in the executive branch are allowed to do to carry out foreign policy. This has been a problem arguably since Truman was president, definitely the case since LBJ was President, and has only grown ever since.

Yup. For foreign policy, the party hasn't mattered much in roughly 70 years. The only one I can tell that made any kind of break from script was JFK.

 

[Boom_70]

The bottom line is that we won't see Obama... or any other President, for that matter... dare to condemn what happened, and prefer to sweep it under the rug, because the next thing you know, questions will be raised as to how much power ANY President will be allowed to have to decide what those in the executive branch are allowed to do to carry out foreign policy. This has been a problem arguably since Truman was president, definitely the case since LBJ was President, and has only grown ever since.

Yup. For foreign policy, the party hasn't mattered much in roughly 70 years. The only one I can tell that made any kind of break from script was JFK.

President Diem's family wonder's what you mean in regard to JFK

 

[GoochMan]

President Diem's family wonder's what you mean in regard to JFK

I'm wondering what you mean by President Diem in regards to JFK, who did not want him assassinated. He did support the coup, which was a mistake. NO president leaves the office with totally clean hands.
Not to get too historical, but how did Diem take power initially? I wonder who had his back in the mid-50's....