Posted on 10/08/2009 8:54:15 PM PDT by slickeroo
Yup. Its been full bore.
I wish a few of the wealthier conservatives and corporations would get together and buy out at least one of the big media conglomerates. NBC, ABC? Something.
I never fail to be amazed at the things evil people will believe and do. It's likely that Guevara would have been willing to kill everybody on the planet—except himself and a few fellow travelers—in order to prove to himself that his Marxist ideology was correct and everybody who disagreed with him was wrong. And I'm reminded of Bill Ayers, Obama's pal, who once said that it would be necessary to slaughter 25 million Americans in order to bring the ideal New World Order of the Weathermen into existence. The fact that he could even contemplate such an idea shows that he's certifiable. And yet now he's a tenured professor at an American university. Truly astonishing and frightening.
you miss the piont of the piece — he said that Guevara never faced anyone in battle and that his victims were all tied up for him. Surely that’s not courageous?
you should read it anyway — it’s one of the best things I’ve ever read on the Castro /Communist takeover.
Ah, the author's feeble attempt to understand the mind of a mathematician...
The Jupiter IRBM’s were being considered for phasing out as early as 1961. These missiles were intended as stopgaps until more reliable missile technology was available. The PGM-19 was a liquid fueled missile, using liquid oxygen as the oxidizer. This has operational problems such as a 1 hour reaction time, and also above ground (non-hardened) launch facilities at fixed locations. So when these were decommissioned in 1963, they were already obsolete. At the same time, the Minuteman ICBM’s were already coming on line (solid fuel, 1 minute order to launch reaction), and also the Polaris SLBM’s. One SSBN effectively replaced the squadron of Jupiters in Turkey. So in 1963, decommissioning the Jupiters were effectively a convenient throwaway, since they were an obsolete weapon system at the time. Consider even the A-2 version of the Polaris. Reaction time would have been variable - receipt of order to arrival at launch depth, however, where is the sub? This caused the Soviets to divert military resources to ASW. Retiring the Jupiters was no loss. The Atlas and the Titan I ICBM’s, also using liquid oxygen, were phased out soon after due to technological obsolescence.
With the long reaction time (1 hour), and the 30 minute flight time of incoming missiles, the missiles using LOX would have been destroyed before launch.
“The widespread use of opium during the Victorian period may have influenced or been reflected in Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland.”
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/carroll/aiwl5.html
Be that as it may, the media still didn't report the fact that Kennedy agreed to move them. Which, as I recall, is what I said. In the context of the media doing its' job it's irrelevant whether Kennedy and his advisors thought they were putting one over on Nikita Kruschev by agreeing to remove obsolete missiles. The Russians knew they were obsolete but Kennedy's agreement gave them a face-saving opportunity. And the media failed to report that at the time. Instead it portrayed the outcome of the Cuban Missile Crisis as more one-sided than it really was.
What Newspapers were you reading at the time? I lived in the Washington, DC area, and both Washington papers reported on the removal of the Jupiter missiles, and discussed them in the contex of quid pro quo for the Soviets removing their missiles from Cuba. Moreover, at least one of the articles in one of the papers made the point that the Jupiters were obsolete technology which were due to be retired anyway.
Vietvet
Don’t forget the best part — he’s a *dead* assassin, coward, and imbecile.
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