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Today Is the Anniversary of JFK’s Declaration of War
By Jacob G. Hornberger

June 10, is the anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s declaration of war against the national-security branch of the U.S. government. To be sure, he didn’t call it that. He simply was delivering a speech at the June 10, 1963, commencement exercises at American University. The speech has gone down in history simply as JFK’s “Peace Speech,” but in essence it was a declaration of war against the Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA.

JFK delivered his speech at the height of the Cold War, the period of time in which the United States was supposedly gravely threatened by a worldwide communist conspiracy that was supposedly based in Moscow, Russia. The communists were coming to get us, U.S. officials said. There could never be either a negotiated peace or peaceful co-existence with the communist world, they claimed. This had to be a war to the finish.

The Cold War sometimes turned hot. There was the Korean War in the early 1950s, when the U.S. government intervened to protect the right of South Korea to secede from the rest of the nation rather than being forced to be part of a communist nation. By June 1963, thousands of U.S. military advisors were in Vietnam for the same reason.

The irony is that Russia’s communist regime had just recently been America’s ally and partner in World War II. The two nations had worked together to defeat Nazi Germany. But as soon as the war was over, U.S. officials told the American people that they could not rest because they now faced a new official enemy that was arguably more dangerous and threatening than Hitler and the Nazis. That new foe was Soviet Russia, communism, and the Reds.

In fact, that was the justification for converting America’s federal governmental structure from a limited-government republic to a national-security state, one in which a major part of the U.S. government acquired omnipotent, totalitarian-like powers, including the power of state-sponsored assassinations. ......