20-08-2016, 06:43 PM
(This post was last modified: 20-08-2016, 07:05 PM by Rolf Zaeschmar.)
Jim DiEugenio Wrote:... why did we just not invade Cuba, this is something that I have thought about for a long time.
Me too. One salient fact is that after the Bay of Pigs the US never seriously threatened Castro's hold on power, though the pinprick raids and the economic sabotage efforts continued for decades. Why not? They overthrew dozens of governments in the interim, but not Cuba. In some "deep state" kind of way, I suspect the powers that be quietly decided Cuba was more valuable to them as a communist nation. Remember that Castro himself seized power with the assistance of the CIA.