Quote from traderfut2000:
RS7,
Ask the Vietnamese and Koreans what they think of your interventions??? ask the Irakis and Cubans.
Uhhhh.. let's see. The AMERICAN PEOPLE put an end to the war in Vietnam by pressuring our government. That is how things work here. Korea? Never ended, and was a UN action. Iraqi people were never our enemy. Just their one mad man leader.
And the Cubans? Ask ElCubano about that one. Not me. But from what I can see, it is the expatriot Cubans that most vehemently oppose Castro. How we got involved in a civil war is pretty much beyond me. But when they permitted (asked for) Soviet nuclear weapons to be placed on their soil and aimed at the US, then yeah, there was a reason to place an embargo on them. And a blockade at the time.
Imagine how that would have played out if Kennedy was more like Saddam. Or Arafat. (or even Bush). Maybe Thunderbolt is right. Maybe there is a god. Because somehow we survived that crisis. I was young, but old enough to remember. We all expected to die.
Peace,
rs7