***“But their fight was doomed before the first man hit the beach.”***
A Kennedy stab in the back. No planes. No ammo. Kennedy simply wished them luck AFTER they landed.
NEVER trust a Democrat!
This was the first time a U.S. backed effort had been defeated in the western hemisphere.
The Democrats in the State Department had brought Castro into power. They had betrayed the Cuban underground and had provided Castro with the exact site and date and time of the doomed landing.
The self described Best and the Brightest of the Kennedy administration then betrayed the Cubans by leaving them stranded to be killed or captured and imprisoned and tortured.
This was the beginning of one failed operation after another by the Best and Brightest Kennedy and Johnson administrations. It was the beginning of a 20 year decline of America that was not reversed until the presidency of Ronald Reagan.
So, Kennedy deserted the Cuban freedom fighters he had sent to Cuba, just like Mrs. Clinton deserted the Americans in Benghazi! A blotch on American history in both cases.
Worth repeating.
Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, Clinton, Obama.
More than abundant evidence that a DemocRAT should never be entrusted as Commander-in-Chief of the US military; but, apparently, certain people never learn.
pfl. I was there.
Bautista was another fascist tin pot dictator that we habitually kept in power to loot raw materials from 3rd world countries at the behest of the banker oligarchs and their CIA warlords. This policy of raw material extraction has ended up making us the enemy of developing countries and their only vehicle of redress, the UN. You Cold War conservatives think that Marxism was conjured up by an evil wizard hypnotist rather than a reaction to 19th century oligarch abuses of working stiffs such as yourselves. These sadistic ABUSES of working conditions CREATED Marxism. Google “Triangle Shirt Factory Fire” to discover why the Marxist International Ladies Garment Workers Union was formed, for example. There is capitalism and there is MONOPOLISM. You fascist plantation overseer war lord conservatives will never understand the concept of workers as a valued component of production rather than as wage slaves to be hoodwinked, exploited and thrown away.
From Wikipedia:
Back in power, Batista suspended the 1940 Constitution and revoked most political liberties, including the right to strike. He then aligned with the wealthiest landowners who owned the largest sugar plantations, and presided over a stagnating economy that widened the gap between rich and poor Cubans.[5] Batista’s increasingly corrupt and repressive government then began to systematically profit from the exploitation of Cuba’s commercial interests, by negotiating lucrative relationships with the American mafia, who controlled the drug, gambling, and prostitution businesses in Havana, and with large US-based multinationals who were awarded lucrative contracts.[5][6] To quell the growing discontent amongst the populace—which was subsequently displayed through frequent student riots and demonstrations—Batista established tighter censorship of the media, while also utilizing his Bureau for the Repression of Communist Activities to carry out wide-scale violence, torture and public executions; ultimately killing anywhere from 1,000 to 20,000 people.[7][8][9] For several years until 1959, the Batista government received financial, military, and logistical support from the United States.[10]
In April 1962, I was on my way to a place called Vietnam, delivering troops and helicopters. Of course, we were never there. We were too busy to pay attention to what was going on in Cuba.
A year after The Bay of Pigs, I was stationed at MCAS Beaufort, SC during the Missile Crisis. I came back from a weekend pass to find the base fully lit up at 3 AM on Monday morning. Guard at the gate told us to change into utilities and report to your squadron. We didn’t get to sleep until Tuesday at 2100. It was a non-stop parade of trucks, transports, fighters and equipment.
At University of Florida, I got to know several Cubans who got away. One was with the troops at The Bay of Pigs. He spent 6 months in a Castro prison until he escaped. No kind words for the Kennedys.
Come to think of it, Kennedy put me in harm’s way twice.
My husband (Air Force) was all ready to ship out over the Bay of Pigs.