[who_would_fardels_bear]

The end result of the Cuban missile crisis was that the Soviets got us to remove our missiles from Turkey.

And our government did this without informing us at the time so as to make it look like a win for us when it was in fact either a win for the Soviets or at best a tie.

[Reily]

I hate to sound like I am defending a Kennedy, but I am not! The following is just stating a fact.

The missile given up in Turkey were Jupiter PGM-19’s, a liquid fueled IRBM, by the 1960’s outdated. Liquid fueled missiles were being phased out, too slow to prepare for launch. Since they were IRBMs too close to the target to be that slow!

So if we had to give up something, that’s the something to give up!