The CIA also convinced President Eisenhower that the soviets did not possess the technology capable of shooting these planes down. On April 9, 1960, the United States' Central Intelligence Agency grew a bit bolder in their surveillance and decided to fly one of their U-2 spy planes into Soviet territory and take photos of secret Soviet military installations, including air bases and missile test sites. The information gained from this flight was incredibly valuable, but the missions were extremely illegal and dangerous. The Soviets had spotted the plane as it flew over their airspace, but the United States officially denied sending spy planes over the Soviet Union, and without any physical proof, there was nothing the Soviet Union could do. The CIA tried to send another plane through Soviet airspace on May 1, 1960, but this time, the Soviet Union was more prepared.
Lastly, the executive branch failed to keep Congress informed. They did not brief Congress when they sold the arms to Iran and they completely disregarded laws restricting aid to the contras (Lowenthal, 169). The resulting blowback nearly ruined President Reagan’s efforts for global security. The power struggle between Congress and the President was problematic. It appeared that, even though Congress was supposed to be briefed on covert missions in order to decide if they should fund it or not, the National Security Council walked easily through a loophole in the
Richard Nixon? True, the Watergate scandal justified his resignation, but Nixon was a master statesman, we are reminded, whose initiatives produced détente with the Russians and an open door to China. For McCarthy, there’s been no such balancing act. Americans have learned to view him as the nation’s most dangerous modern demagogue. Pick up a dictionary and you’ll find the word “McCarthyism” defined as “the practice of publicizing accusations with insufficient regard to evidence” and “the use of unfair investigatory methods to suppress
Such mass destruction was not necessary to end the war. Even in today’s times we rush to destroy rather than to communicate. I understand that there is no communicating with some people or countries. But is massive loss of life what is necessary to solve all the problems that rise? As for was Harry Truman a great president, I think sometimes we have to look at what we have years later to realize what we had when a president help office.
In chapter 7 of book one, Winston is talking to a man about life before the revolution and questioned “the claim of the Party to have improved the conditions of human life” (p93). The Party has weakened the people’s minds with “doublethink” and if their minds are weak, they can not challenge the Party. In this case, if no one can remember life before the revolution then there can not be any challenges towards the party. No one can say that the Party has truly failed in the current conditions. The Party has successfully done this by altering history in the form of rewriting books and documents.
Not many know that Kennedy built a relationship with Khrushchev. In fact, Reeves describes Kennedy as “the co-contractor of the Berlin Wall” (p. 97).Kennedy did not believe in resorting to nuclear weapons and he when he found out the true political issue Berlin was having with runaway refugees the two politicians decided to work together. This resulted in the construction of the Berlin Wall. They agreed on the terms that the Soviet Union would take down the missiles targeted at the United States and we could not invade the Soviet Union. Therefore, there wall was the only solution and when that wall went up Kennedy believed that we had no right to control what happens on the other side of that wall because that was not out country.
The Harper regime, after gaining a majority vote recently, has been particularly aggressive in trying to push a controversial and suspicious agenda. The government has decided to place public safety and statistical data secondary to their political schematics, attempting to pass a heavily opposed omnibus anti-crime bill. The changes outlined in the new proposed ‘Tory Crime Bill” have been subject to extensive criticism and debate. Sparked by discussion and articles from numerous scholars, the reproach is due to the various laws that the bill wishes to enact, ones which are arguably leading the nation in the opposite direction. A series of publications on the topic were compiled by notable figures in Canadian Criminology, Edward Greenspan
"Since the expiration of the federal Assault Weapons Ban two years ago, there has been a significant rise in violent crime and homicides. Passing an assault weapons ban must be one of the top domestic safety priorities of the 110th Congress." FBI statistics show that "assault weapons" are used in less than 2% of gun crimes; they simply are not the preferred gun of criminals. Criminals use what is readily available to them, they do not go out and spend $1000 on a gun that they can't conceal and probably don't know how to operate. Ten months after the last Assault Weapon Ban lapsed in 2004, violent crime had dropped
All I did was take documents, top secret documents, and make them available to the public. While I did steal USA government property, I did not have it published in the USA; thus why I left you without saying a word. I could not tell you where I was going or that I was even fleeing the country. I do hope you will forgive me on that one. As Henry David Thoreau
Saddam was not found, but was later killed, nevertheless there were no weapons of mass destruction, and there was no obvious link between Al-Qaeda and Iraq. Congress woman Nancy Pelosi commented “The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history; and he failed to build a true international coalition.” This quote suggests that America went to war on the assumption that Iraq was harnessing weapons of mass destruction, instead of gaining evidence first. This has damaged Americas relationship with other allies countries today, as the allies trusted America to tell truth and there was more sinister reasons for