19-02-2011, 01:50 AM
If I remember correctly, Allen Dulles and some other Pentagon CIA types met with Kennedy in the fall of 1961 and actually proposed a first strike scenario since they said they would never have a better opportunity to do so.
Kennedy turned them down and left the room disgusted. I think he made a comment something like: And we call ourselves the human race.
The outmoded missiles in Turkey did not come close to what the Russians were going to install in Cuba. And you did not have to vaporize NYC, Chicago, Boston, Washington, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Atlanta, Miami, Tampa, Jacksonville, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, St. Louis, Cleveland, Cincinnati, and many others, in order to stop an invasion of Cuba. THe tactical nukes would have done that easily.
It was Kennedy who navigated that horrible crisis wonderfully. And he probably saved us from WWIII. Cannot believe that Batey has not read The Kennedy Tapes. To busy reading that fruitcake Chomsky.
Kennedy turned them down and left the room disgusted. I think he made a comment something like: And we call ourselves the human race.
The outmoded missiles in Turkey did not come close to what the Russians were going to install in Cuba. And you did not have to vaporize NYC, Chicago, Boston, Washington, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Atlanta, Miami, Tampa, Jacksonville, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, St. Louis, Cleveland, Cincinnati, and many others, in order to stop an invasion of Cuba. THe tactical nukes would have done that easily.
It was Kennedy who navigated that horrible crisis wonderfully. And he probably saved us from WWIII. Cannot believe that Batey has not read The Kennedy Tapes. To busy reading that fruitcake Chomsky.