It is a shame that Oliver Stone neglected to include John F. Kennedy's commencement address at American University, delivered June 10, 1963 (five months before his murder in Dallas) in the film JFK. Had he included this speech, Stone would have bolstered his theory that President Kennedy was assassinated due to a planned policy shift which would seriously undermine the role of the military in the government of the United States. In the event, Stone also missed an opportunity to use the power of Hollywood to acquaint a large (indeed, international) audience with this speech, which one cannot read or listen to today without being stunned by the oceanic difference between Kennedy's emerging vision of America's potential role in the world and the Neo-Con Manichaean paranoia that currently holds this country in its grip. I'm sorry, how was that again? Who's paranoid?
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