Re: Bush in the Cuban Missile Crisis?

"Tiglath" <temp5@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> What would have happened if the Cuban Missile Crisis had happened
> during Bush Jr.'s presidency?
>
> Can you say nukular winter?
>
> Bush-in-bunker would be saying that things may look pretty back they
> only appear so, that God wanted this and that he will be vindicated
> when the dust settles in a few years...
>
> It's hard to answer what-if questions like that, but the question is
> useful to contrast Kennedy with Bush.
>
> We need presidents who can act or not act wisely on the advice they
> receive.
>
> Kennedy followed the CIA's advice on the Bay of Pigs and got into a
> hell of a pickle.   Good learner that he was, during the Cuban crisis
> he disregarded the admonitions of his military advisers who were all
> for a massive bombing of Cuba followed by an all-out invasion a la
> Normandy.
>
> Kennedy said that he would only go to war if he was able to explain
> the reasons to the American people -- and were justifiable reasons.
>
> Now we are not talking here about some truck in a distant desert which
> might have been a chemical weapons laboratory.   What Kennedy faced
> was no less than the Soviet Empire projecting its power across the
> ocean right to the threshold of America, by placing in Cuba some fifty
> thousand Soviet troops armed with tactical nuclear weapons that could
> reach Wa****ngton and New York.
>
> Yet, Kennedy averted war.
>
> I don't doubt that Bush under the strains of a similar crisis could
> easily blunder into letting the worst happen.   But if given time to
> reflect, I don't believe Bush would have the balls to stand up to a
> serious threat.  Remember, he is a confirmed coward, and age doesn't
> make a young coward braver.
>
> It is easy to see how Bush has done nothing but shoot his mouth when
> it came to people who could actually do what he told us Saddam could
> do.   North Korea could devastate Seoul in a few minutes and reach LA
> with a missile, allegedly.   That alone tamed Bush the Pre-empter to
> the point that attacking North Korea never appears to have been an
> option -- mushroom clouds and all.
>
> We are lucky there is no enemy like the Soviet Union for Bush to
> defend us against.  Very lucky.
>
> Kennedy was surrounded by hawks no less than Bush is surrounded by
> belligerent Neocons.   Kennedy kept the peace with honor, while Bush
> took us to war with ignominious lies
>
> Remember Bush and Kennedy when you choose a president...
>
>


good post tiglet.