The House That Zelmo Built

JFK was assassinated for a reason, and this one is as good as any, not to mention being the most believable and justified reason. All the sacrifices that our military had made over the past 200 years was destined to be handed over to the U.N. by Kennedy. The Freedom From War draft was one that was submitted by JFK himself. The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was a direct result of the Kennedy Administration's chickening out during the Bay Of Pigs invasion. If Kennedy had committed our troops to the Bay Of Pigs in 1961, there would have been no Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.

As for Vietnam, remember that Kennedy was the one who got us involved over there in the first place by approving the overthrow of Ngo Dinh Diem's regime in South Vietnam. 16,500 American troops were already stationed there on the Kennedy Administration's watch by the time that LBJ took over. The Gulf Of Tonkin Resolution enacted during the Johnson Administration was simply a symptom of Kennedy's pacifist nature and cowardice in the face of curbing the spread of Communism by committing our troops to the use of military force, as was first evidenced by his faltering at The Bay Of Pigs 3 years before; the reason being, if Kennedy had committed our troops to actual conflict and nipped the Ho Chi Minh problem in the bud when he had the chance, the Vietnam War might very well have never happened. Or at the very least, it wouldn't have been as long and drawn out as it had ended up being.

JFK's assassination spared the U.S. from falling under the yoke of U.N. military control completely. True, our military has been downsizing since the '70s and postwar-Vietnam, but never to the point of surrendering ourselves to the umbrella of a U.N. Peace Force. The hawks in Washington are the last line of defense between us and our enemies.

I think Jack Nicholson said it best in A Few Good Men when he said "you sleep under the blanket of freedom that I provide, and then question how I provide it". Our freedom is the direct result of our military might. Peace is not the absence of war, but the result of it. JFK's assassination was a necessary evil, and one that I am thankful to the powers that be for carrying out, because the alternative could have been so much worse.