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To: JohnM who wrote (141132)9/30/2005 2:44:56 PM
From: Thomas A Watson  Respond to of 794008
 
Considering the USSR was in fact a paper tiger as the Cuban missile crisis showed and considering the world upset over America invading Grenada, I see JohnM blathering a fury of tempest in a teapot. Especially in the early 60s if the US had simply absorbed Cuba.

What threats bubbles in the weak mind are always a good comedy.

I cannot consider Kennedy the worst President. Carter was an ass and gave America, "we must be content to be in 2nd place bla bla"
Kennedy was equal or worse the ass but he gave us NASA and those dreams and a real technology explosion that is a large part of what makes America today, the best that is and will be.

Most cannot see the connections of how NASA made Jack Kilbies children multiply so much faster.



To: JohnM who wrote (141132)9/30/2005 2:53:35 PM
From: LindyBill  Respond to of 794008
 
Of course it's not my only argument. We are posting short remarks here, not writing tomes.

The country would have had no problem with invading Cuba in 1960. You might not have liked it, but the communist menace was taken seriously then. And not taking down Castro almost got us nuked. We now know that Castro wanted Kruschev to nuke us during the crisis, and Kruschev turned him down.