JFK on Neoconservatives

On June 10, 1963, President John F. Kennedy delivered a commencement address at American University in Washington, D.C., in which he declared that the peace that the United States wanted was “not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war.” Kennedy dismissed the charge that “American imperialist circles” were “preparing to unleash different kinds of wars” including “preventative war.”

Many believe this speech reflected the primary differences that JFK had with the Pentagon and the military-industrial complex.



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