Posted on 10/14/2008 8:44:03 PM PDT by mimi from mi
That breaks my heart. Really.
Well, I’ll try to find a way to muster up the strength to struggle through the rest of my week, nonetheless.
The Kennedy men were/are all pigs in their personal lives.
Being on the verge of all out nuclear war, would you have preferred the alternative?
If I had an RPG mounted on your front lawn pointed at your home, and you had one pointed at mine, would you not negotiate that both be removed?
You could be right.
However, it was Eisenhower that decided to use the CIA to overthrow Castro, and the CIA sucked up a lot of bad intel. Much of the intelligence received stated that if a CIA backed invasion occurred, the Cuban population would support it and back it up.
Just the opposite occurred.
In addition, Castro knew of the invasion before hand due Cubans the CIA was training in Florida, in addition, reports of a pending invasion were being broadcast within the US and foreign media sources.
Mistakes were made by Kennedy, the CIA and the Cubans we were training, however, the fact remains, all out nuclear war was avoided after the failed invasion, during the Cuban missile crisis.
Once again, the fact is these events were probably the most dangerous America and the world ever faced. The other fact is, nuclear war was avoided.
Looking back, I am confident most would consider avoiding a nuclear war as a good thing.
Another fact is, when you covertly go into foreign countries, with the motive of overthrowing their countries, you must be fully prepared for things to go southbound. It's a very risky business.
From some of the FR posts it seemed like the JFK/Desloge marriage was done in a drunken stupors.
Interesting that the Desloge and Kennedy families were both strong Catholics. I believe Desloge still supports St. Louis University.
Haven't read the book, but I suspect between the two families pressure and money was put on the Catholic Church to annul the marriage.
This family tree snippet was a load of crap, and has been discussed ad nauseum for fifty years or more.
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