nom=de=plume wrote:
Not when it comes to Obama I guess.

"Frogwatch" wrote in message
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The President is Commander in Chief, those missiles in Turkey need
never have been deployed. Kennedy could have stopped it at any time
but he stupidly went along with it due to his own "missile gap"
rhetoric in the 1960 campaign. Furthermore, Kennedy knew there was no
missile gap as did Nixon (this had been revealed by direct photo-
reco). However, Nixon could not reveal there was no missile gap
without violating security. Thus, Kennedy had a hand in greatly
increasing the arms race. Another reason he went along with the
Turkey missiles is because he was afraid of Curtis Lemay who was truly
crazed. Lemay really did want a nuke war with the Soviets and he
thought Kennedy was a wimp.
So, Kennedy caused the Cuban Missile Crisis because he HAD NO COJONES
to stand up to Lemay. Seriously, the cowardice of Kennedy nearly
caused a nuke war. The only person who actually will look good to
historians in this will be Krushev.




Frogbreath isn't a student of history. The decision to deploy Jupiter
missiles in Turkey was made during the Eisenhower administration, upon
the recommendations of the Department of Defense. Frogbreath's
"recollection" of Kennedy's motivations is faulty or skewed by his
right-wing extremist viewpoint.