On 10/23/11 5:40 AM, X ` Man wrote:
On 10/22/11 10:41 PM, wrote:
On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:21:27 -0700, wrote:
What was false about it? Bush wanted to measure dicks with Saddam.
The worst thing that could happen Iraq happened and most of the world
was unchanged. If the Cuban missile Crisis had a tiny little glitch,
western civilization could have been set back to the dark ages.
At least Bush can say he toppled a dictator. JFK didn't accomplish a
thing, in Cuba or the USSR. It was all for nothing.
The Cuban dictator is still there 50 years later.The Soviet
dictatorship lasted 36 more years and it is easy to say Russia is
still a virtual dictatorship. (unless you really believe Putin can be
tossed out in an election)
We didn't invade Cuba, commit a trillion dollars and 5000 lives.
I prefer Kennedy's outcome.
The outcome was we caved in to the Soviet demands. We could have done
that without all the risk of WWIII. It was a stupid gamble that he
just got lucky on, but JFK had a history of stupid gambles. Some
didn't come out as well.
The whole Cuban debacle that we are still mired in, started with JFK.
The outcome was that Russia packed up its nuclear missiles and took them
home.
Actually, the debacle started long before Kennedy was president. It
started with our support of Fulgencio Batista, the right-wing dictator,
who, during his second round of being Cuba's dictator, sold out the
working classes and his homeland to American capitalists and brutalized
his people. Since Batista was in bed with American corporations, we
supported him. U.S. corporations owned a great deal of Cuban farmland
and most of the island's mineral rights and, of course, Batista was a
bloodthirsty thug.
*That* set the stage for Castro.
We had a penchant for supporting right-wing dictators in those days...in
South Korea, in Iran, in Cuba, in Vietnam. Too bad we didn't line up
with the aspirations of the common man and woman in those countries.