Posted on 04/20/2014 7:19:32 AM PDT by Texas Eagle
“We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty!” proclaimed Lynch and Hawkin’s Commander-in-Chief just three months earlier.
“They fought like tigers,” writes the CIA officer who helped train the Cubans who splashed ashore at the Bay of Pigs 53 years ago this week. “But their fight was doomed before the first man hit the beach.”
That CIA man, Grayston Lynch, knew something about fighting – and about long odds. He carried scars from Omaha Beach, the Battle of the Bulge, and Korea’s Heartbreak Ridge. But in those battles Lynch and his band of brothers counted on the support of their commander in chief. At the Bay of Pigs, Lynch (an American) and his band of brothers (Cubans) learned — first in speechless shock and finally in burning rage — that their most powerful enemies were not Castro’s Soviet-armed soldiers massing in nearby Santa Clara, but the Ivy League’s best and brightest dithering in Washington.
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I think I would have liked your father.
Oops, I should have read the rest of the posts before I posted. I agree with you about the mafia.
A shame we will never live down. Makes one wonder if the Lord has allowed all the wars since to be technically “lost”, and yet America is clueless. We talk of our military prowess and still elect fools to lead us. Military prowess is not something that just happens. It is cultivated and worked at. But with leaders as we’ve had from the 1960s, we will lose it all and still be ruled by clueless fools and ruthless Marxists. As we have been, except for Reagan, who wasn’t perfect, either.
Me too.
They trusted us.
Was that what they called his womanizing? Playing cards?
No. It's what I call it.
Preezy Pajama Boy BFF, Reggie Love, gleefully told a radio interviewer that he and Barry were upstairs playing cards with another couple during the takedown of Osama bin Laden.
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