Mary's Mosaic: Entering Peter Janney's World of Fantasy

[Albert Doyle]

As per the Missile Crisis, that was a hare-brained miscalculation by Khrushchev.

Ironic that Khrushchev was less able to resist his Soviet warlords and probably had no choice in sending the missiles. The Soviets were following an incremental policy of slow proliferation of communism. Meanwhile JFK's advisors were pushing for pre-emptive nuclear attack. The natural course this impasse caused was the perceived need for even more CIA control of American national security interests in order to prevent another Castro. VietNam was the chosen arena for this new paradigm and Phoenix was the new rule. It's kind of ironic that the Americans lost VietNam and the communists ended-up losing Russia. The world lost JFK...