03-11-2008, 06:05 AM
Myra Bronstein Wrote:Very cryptic. How did they benefit Charles?
And why would they continue to send supposed assassination teams with poison pills, and invasion teams (e.g., Little Bay of Pigs,http://littlebayofpigs.com/) if they didn't want Castro dead?
The benefits accrued to those elements of the military-industrial complex -- and the politicians who serviced them -- for whom the presence of a hemispheric bogeyman underscored their usefulness, generated economic profit, and preserved the Cold War fictive construct.
The staged attempts at invasion and assassination kept the low level muscle in line insofar as they catered to their appetites for vengeance and a return to power in a "liberated" Cuba.