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Spotting out the truly dangerous

Lloyd's new article is up at www.psychohistory.com. You'll note a couple of changes in this latest work from what he's 
written before. After a quick first read, these two stand out: Current: Kennedy soon needed a new war to consolidate his defensive masculinity 
pose, increased the U.S. military spending the largest amount in any 
peacetime, and then committed 16,300 U.S. soldiers to Vietnam. When he 
went to Dallas, where there were many highly publicized death threats 
to kill him, he needed still more “toughness,” and told his wife, 
“Jackie, if somebody wants to shoot me from a window with a rifle, 
nobody can stop it.” “His Secret Service aides told him he better put 
up the bulletproof plastic top on his limousine, so he specifically 
told them not to do so,” committing suicide to demonstrate his 
hypermasculinity. ( Global Wars to Restore U.S. Masculinity ) Here, Kennedy is hypermasculine, even in suicide demonstrating his toughness. Before: ...