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Kennedy proposed one, but was cancelled for his efforts. > if a beachhead of cooperation may push back the jungle of suspicion, let both sides join in creating
by 082349872349872 2y ago
Kennedy proposed one, but was cancelled for his efforts.
> if a beachhead of cooperation may push back the jungle of suspicion, let both sides join in creating a new endeavor —not a new balance of power, but a new world of law— where the strong are just, and the weak secure, and the peace preserved. —JFK
(one might even argue that he and Khrushchev were able to establish a beachhead of cooperation, but note that the latter also found himself cancelled, shortly after Kennedy's)
- krapp 2y agoI don't know what you're implying. His head just did that.
- 082349872349872 2y agoReworded; is it clearer now? (I guess if I'm implying anything, it's that supernational arrangements are not only difficult from the normal entropic point of view; they've also proven difficult because some people are hostile to them: at times even violently hostile)
- Animats 2y agoThat was the plan for the United Nations. Get all the major powers who won WWII to work together to clamp down on anybody else with conquest plans.