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To: LindyBill who wrote (141017)	9/30/2005 11:02:05 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793964

Nixon would have put troops in and invaded Cuba. Without a blink of an eye. It's, of course, something we can't know. You would have to make an argument for it rather than simply assert it. The argument against it is that Nixon was not a neocon; he was the classic hard headed realist, if a conservative version. The realist counter argument would have been that the international community would have gone bonkers, the country would have been severely divided (not just the left but the center would have been serious upset), and, since the Cuban revolution was quite popular on the island, the opposition would have led to a guerilla war. I think it unlikely that, adding that all up, Nixon would have gone for it. Most likely they would have tried some early variant of the Allende stuff he and Kissinger did in the 70s. However, I think that would have not been as workable as in Chile because Cuba lacked the military opposition to Castro that was present in Chile and Castro was more popular in Cuba in the early 60s than Allende in Chile in the 70s. So, your next mission is to do a bit of historical rewriting, huh. Kennedy was a failure as a president; Nixon, the great presidential failure, would have been a success. Have fun with that one. I don't think it will get very far off the ground save in the arcane closed circles of the self-reinforcing right wing blogs. On the argument you made earlier but have apparently dropped that Nixon lost because the elections were stolen in Illinois and Texas, a suggestion on a slightly related topic. If you have not read Robert Caro's chapter on Johnson's senatorial election in 1948, the one in which he beat Coke Stevenson, let me recommend you drop everything and do so. I've not read a better introduction to the underside of American politics circa late 40s. I can't even imagine what goes on today with folk like Karl Rove engineering it.