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To: michael97123 who wrote (406685)	8/15/2008 11:21:38 AM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1575761

so to you nuclear exchange was preferable to removing jupiters from turkey. OK i got it now. No, I didn't say that and obviously don't believe that. But Kennedy proposed the quid pro quo, not Kruschev. Kennedy humiliated Kruschev with the deal because the agreement was not made public. Kennedy offered the withdrawal from Turkey as a way of defusing the crisis. Kruschev didn't come to Kennedy and say, "You withdraw from Turkey and we'll back off". Let me put it another way. Kennedy did a reasonably good job given his inexperience IMO. In the end, the fact that Kruschev was humiliated probably was Kruschev's undoing, so one could argue that Kennedy stumbled into a positive outcome with it, and you have to give him that. But strategically, it is generally a blunder to reward aggression and this should be avoided.