Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. delivered a major foreign policy speech last night to an overflow crowd of 700 people on the campus of Saint Anselm College in Goffstown, New Hampshire. He used as a touchstone for his address the historic Peace Speech delivered 60 years ago by his uncle, President John F. Kennedy, on June 10, 1963 at American University in Washington, D.C., quoting from it directly on numerous occasions.
Because of its importance in reshaping the political landscape in the United States on fundamental policy issues facing the nation well before the 2024 presidential election, we provide important excerpts below, taken from coverage in the New Hampshire Union Leader and the New Hampshire Journal. This is all the more necessary since the content of RFK Jr.’s speech has been largely blocked out of the mainstream media so far.
“I call on every American to join a new peace movement, to make your voices heard ... to celebrate no longer a wartime president but a president who keeps the peace.…
“When you see humans as fundamentally selfish and nations as fundamentally evil then all you have available to change their behavior are threats and bribes. Peace comes from a different place.…
“We have surrounded Russia with missiles and military bases, something we would never tolerate if the Russians did (that) to us.…
“War is inevitable only if we make it inevitable.… The war in Ukraine could have been avoided even, we now know, as late as the spring of 2022….
