09-03-2015, 04:09 AM
They probably got cold feet with Cuba when they realized it would probably incur nuclear war. Who knows, somewhere there could have been a decision that the favorable window had lapsed so an open front against communism created in the Asian geographical equivalent to Cuba, Viet Nam, which was located right at the southern foot of communist Asia, just like Cuba was at the foot of the US, was a better alternative. The commies had stuck it to us with Cuba and we stuck it right back to them with Viet Nam.