09-11-2014, 01:23 PM
In his most recent article "The Long, Shameful History of American Terrorism" Noam Chomsky tries to put JFK's Cuba policy in the same league as Ronald Reagan's terrorist campaign against Nicaragua:
"In Cuba, after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961, President John F. Kennedy launched a murderous and destructive campaign to bring "the terrors of the earth" to Cuba -- the words of Kennedy's close associate, the historian Arthur Schlesinger, in his semiofficial biography of Robert Kennedy, who was assigned responsibility for the terrorist war.
The atrocities against Cuba were severe. The plans were for the terrorism to culminate in an uprising in October 1962, which would lead to a U.S. invasion. By now, scholarship recognizes that this was one reason why Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev placed missiles in Cuba, initiating a crisis that came perilously close to nuclear war. U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara later conceded that if he had been a Cuban leader, he "might have expected a U.S. invasion."
American terrorist attacks against Cuba continued for more than 30 years. The cost to Cubans was of course harsh. The accounts of the victims, hardly ever heard in the U.S., were reported in detail for the first time in a study by Canadian scholar Keith Bolender, Voices From the Other Side: An Oral History of Terrorism Against Cuba, in 2010."
http://www.chomsky.info/articles/20141103.htm
Chomsky's article is based on New York Times piece from 15 October "CIA Study of Covert Aid Fueled Skepticism About Helping Syrian Rebels." According to Chomsky the Times based it's story an a "CIA review of recent U.S. covert operations to determine their effectiveness".
I wonder: of all their evil covert activities, why did the CIA pick out Operation Mongoose to include in their review? Or is that just Chomsky?
"In Cuba, after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961, President John F. Kennedy launched a murderous and destructive campaign to bring "the terrors of the earth" to Cuba -- the words of Kennedy's close associate, the historian Arthur Schlesinger, in his semiofficial biography of Robert Kennedy, who was assigned responsibility for the terrorist war.
The atrocities against Cuba were severe. The plans were for the terrorism to culminate in an uprising in October 1962, which would lead to a U.S. invasion. By now, scholarship recognizes that this was one reason why Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev placed missiles in Cuba, initiating a crisis that came perilously close to nuclear war. U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara later conceded that if he had been a Cuban leader, he "might have expected a U.S. invasion."
American terrorist attacks against Cuba continued for more than 30 years. The cost to Cubans was of course harsh. The accounts of the victims, hardly ever heard in the U.S., were reported in detail for the first time in a study by Canadian scholar Keith Bolender, Voices From the Other Side: An Oral History of Terrorism Against Cuba, in 2010."
http://www.chomsky.info/articles/20141103.htm
Chomsky's article is based on New York Times piece from 15 October "CIA Study of Covert Aid Fueled Skepticism About Helping Syrian Rebels." According to Chomsky the Times based it's story an a "CIA review of recent U.S. covert operations to determine their effectiveness".
I wonder: of all their evil covert activities, why did the CIA pick out Operation Mongoose to include in their review? Or is that just Chomsky?