Re: Also. Lt. Gen Boykin, who publicly stated that this is a war against Islam, still continues to be in the military over which Bush has direct control of. Why is that?
That's tantamount to asking why Prez Kennedy didn't fire USAF General Lemay in 1962.... Clue:
Some U.S. military leaders were excited and eager to strike at the Russian-manned missile sites in Cuba. Castro was also excited and eager to strike at U.S. surveillance airplanes. Russian commanders in Cuba approved the shooting down of a U2 plane with a Russian anti-aircraft missile. The U.S. pilot was killed. U.S. military leaders were dismayed by Kennedy's reluctance to retaliate against the downing of the U2. At planning sessions, the head of the Air Force, General Curtis LeMay, was furious. He described Kennedy's position "as almost as bad as the appeasement at Munich." LeMay declared that "if we don't do anything to Cuba, then they're going to push on Berlin, and push hard because they've got us on the run." LeMay said that he saw no solution "except direct military action right now."
Kennedy chose what LeMay called an "appeasement policy." This was without Kennedy and the U.S. military knowing that already in Cuba were nuclear warheads to go with the Russian missiles -- 162 warheads according to Robert McNamara (Kennedy's Secretary of Defense) in the year 1961. It is now known that Fidel Castro and his comrade Che Guevara were arguing in favor of the Russians using the missiles against the United States. They were ready for their martyrdom and the martyrdom of Cuba. But Anastas Mikoyan, in Cuba participating in the crisis on behalf of the Soviet Union, was opposed to any such "beautiful death." The United States had 180,000 troops at its southern ports ready to invade Cuba. According to McNamara, had we known that the nuclear warheads were already in Cuba we may have attacked.
Had the military men around Kennedy had their way a nuclear holocaust might have followed. Kennedy and McNamara struggled to keep the military from over-reacting and striking against the Russians, and the greatest of all tragedies was averted. Khrushchev agreed to remove the missiles from Cuba, and Kennedy agreed to remove U.S. missiles from Turkey and to refrain from invading Cuba. It was now Khrushchev's turn to be accused of having no cojones, by Castro, who was furious with Khrushchev for taking back his missiles. And there was no "push on Berlin" as predicted by LeMay.
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