For Those Of You Familar With The 'Cuban Missile Crisis.' . . . . . .. .?

Question

We were one inch away from nuclear war . The Soviet Union was playing Kennedy as a young, inexperienced fool . Thank God he wasn't !! That man, a Democrat, did one of the finest jobs of negotiating through 'Strength' that I have ever witnessed . Only Reagan compares in that same arena .

Now, what would've happened if some of the Republican Congressmen were going behind his back and sending mixed signals to the Soviets ?
Clearly the Soviets would've been more likely to militarily challenge our President. . . knowing that he didn't have the full support of the House or Senate .

And a military challenge would've been Nuclear. . . Disastrous . . . . and Catastrophic for the entire world . Heck, we might not even be here today, had they done that !!

So. . . Knowing this. . . What do you think about Nancy Pelosi(and a couple of Republicans) doing an 'end around' on our official foreign policy, set forth by our commander in chief ?

NOBODY said Bush was a JFK !!
He is OUR PRESIDENT. . . and THAT DOES NOT change the rules !!!

I think all you liberals should take the advice and experience of 'Gulfstream' . He knows. . . He was there !!

Hyperion - Put on your reading glasses. . . I did note the Republicans too !!

Jim R - If you think you're hiding on the second page of answers. . . you're not !!
I'm fully aware of the missiles in Turkey. . . are you aware they were scheduled to be pulled because they were out-dated ? Nice try strawman !!

Answer 1

Isn't it amazing how liberals cannot answer your question? See them going on and on that Bush is no Kennedy. It shows how little they really know about their own parties history. When it comes to military matters and economic matters they are nearly identical.

What is more, if JFK were a young man today he would be a republican. When was the last time you heard a democrat say,"Ask not what your country can do for you but ask what you can do for you country". ? When was the last time you saw a democrat tax cutter? When was the last time you saw an openly ant-communist/ anti-socialist democrat?

If the modern democratic party is for anything at all it is for what can the government do for you.

Here is my take on the situation today. Democrat? I was a Democrat. Democrats were friends of mine. You liberals are no Democrats.

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Answer 2

There's a flaw in your comparison. The Cuban missile crisis only lasted about a week or so. Had it gone on for 4 or 5 years, it's very likely congressmen would have sidestepped the president to resolve it.
Another flaw is the fact that decades later it was discovered that the Russians didn't have the nuclear arsenal that the USA thought they had. Russia actually at the time had no way to deliver nuclear warheads to the continental US. Russian ICBMs couldn't reach the USA. That was their major reason for wanting the missile bases in Cuba. This bit of intell was not known by Kennedy at the time.
The Russians backed down because if a nuclear war had started, Russia would have been eliminated and the USA would have been untouched.

Answer 3

I was a young man then, my wife's father was in the military during the Cuban "crises" one inch from nuclear war is such a fantasy.
A first rate example of media manipulation, carried out by the first master of it, Pierre Salinger. Kennedy made a deal with Kruschev. If he would pull the missle back, we would pull ours out of Turkey. Didn't know we had them there, did you. My wife's father did, he worked on them there. AA few months after Kruschev "blinked" the missles and their troops came back from Turkey. Dean Rusk, also promised Kruschev that we would allow Cuba to exist in the Soviet sphere and he would stay out of the North American continent. We allowed him to send Castro's revolutionaries all over S. America.
It was nothing Kennedy did. Kennedy was nailing Marilyn Monroe at the time and thinking with his little John.
The final point is that a Russian General of the Rocket force defected. He told the CIA that Russia was not able to defend themselves nor to launch an attack. Thus they backed down.
Don't believe me, I don't care. I lived through it. All most of you have done is be infected by an unreasonable hate for something you do not have enough education or experience to participate in.
If you do not like my answer about the Soviets, look up some history. I know that is asking a lot, but you will see that they failed in all of their military adventures. We were totally lied to by Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon about how strong they were. When our technicians examined captured soviet weapons, I was one, by the way, we found them to be Kludge.
Pelosi? So what? Did she do it on her private jet. She is the biggest empty suit since Carter.


Addendum: Hiding on page two? Where do you get such an idea? Do you think we place our answers? How silly. I did not attack you. Why do you call me names? I notice that anyone who disagrees with you is attacked. Maybe you should not be on here if you cannot bear controversy. Sorry to have had this experience. Hope you do better in future attacks on our government.

Answer 4

The Cuban Missile disaster replaced into one among those huge journey for the human beings through fact they had to compromise and make an contract with the Russians to no longer invade Cuba as quickly as the Russian missiles have been taken out of Cuba.

Answer 5

JFK actually did a great job. Reagan did not negotiate any war crisis. He just outspend the Soviets into their demise (great job). There was never any high tensions between the Soviets and the USA during Reagan's time.

Soooooooooooooooo, are you equating Syria with the Soviet Union. Do they have the capacity to do major damage to the U.S or even their own neighbors.

What is the foreign policy that our CINC has put forth that Pelosi (and the unnamed Republican Congressman) are circumventing? Congress has a duty of oversight on the Executive Branch. To do this, they need to do fact finding missions...even abroad. Pelosi has not authority or power to change US policy, so your fears of her motives are ill-founded.
I think you are just upset over the fact that G.W has done a horrible job of increasing US prestige and power of the world.

Answer 6

True - Bush is no JFK. Bush has the cojones to follow through!

JFK botched the Bay of Pigs by not providing support, and also did NOTHING when the Berlin Wall went up. His weakness CAUSED the Soviets to think they could get away with placing missiles in Cuba. Yes, somewhere he found the courage to finally stand up to them.

Also, as a sidelight, JFK was briefed on the Bay of Pigs plan, started under Eisenhower. (The Eisenhower plan did NOT include losing one's stomach for the operation and not providing air support, though.) But he USED his knowledge of the plan, in the Kennedy-Nixon debates. He complained that the Republicans were doing nothing about Cuba, KNOWING that Nixon would not respond by revealing the secret plan. VERY sneaky!

Plus, Kennedy's "win" in 1960 is clouded in much doubt.

Maybe the country would have been better off all thse years had Nixon won in 1960! (It's this loss, among other thingss, that fed his paranoia and sent him off the deep end.)

That's enough pot-stirring for now! :)

Answer 7

The Cuban Missle Crisis was a crisis created by Kennedy's own doing. Why do you think that the Soviets had the impression. Maybe he gave them reason to believe he was weak (Bay of Pigs). Kennedy also removed all our missles from Turkey (something he didn't need to do).

The one thing about the Russians, they didn't want their people dying from a nuclear explosion. The Iranian government doesn't care about that. Theirs is a true Culture of Death. Nancy Pelosi is doing more harm than good. It is the President that is responsible for handling the foreign policy not the Speaker of the House. Did Newt Gingrich ever go to meet with a head of State without the President's approval? He showed a lot more class than this bundh does.

Answer 8

GREAT QUESTION!! This is something that never occurred but the new Dems see nothing wrong with mixed messages being given to our enemies. See if they will accept that the next time a Dem in White House and Rep in Speaker's chair. I am sure it will be back to no that can not be done. Only the Dems can get away with selling out our country to terrorists.

Answer 9

quite a reach to make a parallel between the two. But, consider, the Cuban missile crisis was adverted because Kennedy was talking with the Soviets. Bush has declared Syria a rogue state and refuses to have dialog with them. If Kennedy had refused to communicate with the USSR then things would have turned out quite differently.
The fact that he slammed the Democrat that went and not the Republicans that went should speak volumes about his agenda.

Answer 10

The reason that Pelosi is going behind Bush's back is that Bush is an extremely unpopular president who most Americans wish would resign. He is one of the worst presidents in US history. Somebody has to take the reigns of government away from the incompetent Shrub and his neocon pals. Bush should be impeached for his crimes and his sell-out of the American people to the giant multi-national corporations!