[Revolting cat!]

No one stood up to Kennedy about doing this rather bizarre thing.

This was the provocation. Who says the Bay of Pigs idea, because in the contect you're referring to the idea or the plan, was a "bizarre thing"? Why?

Was the liberation of Grenada a "bizarre thing"? Invasion of Panama? (The last one was, I think.)

[ScottM1968]

"The Bay of Pigs invasion was badly planned, poorly executed and almost wildly unrealistic. (Months before it began former secretary of state Dean Acheson told JFK, in a private Rose Garden conversation, that you didn’t need Price Waterhouse to figure out 1,500 guerillas aren’t going to beat 25,000 Cuban regulars.)"

The above was in the short paragraph you quoted Peggy as having said.

I didn't have knowledge of her words until you posted them, Revolting! I called it "bizarre". She called it "wildly unrealistic". In this context, it is the same.

Get over it.