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To: combjelly who wrote (521808)	10/19/2009 4:06:17 PM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1580692

because Kennedy was weak, like Obama

To: combjelly who wrote (521808)	10/19/2009 4:49:40 PM
From: i-node	2 Recommendations Respond to of 1580692

>> Well, the removal was part of the deal that ended the crisis. It was, but one cannot infer from that as you and bentway apparently did, that the missiles in Turkey had anything at all to do with the CMC, other than being used as an enticement to end it. Whatever ancillary causes there were (and BofP was one), they all boil down to one thing: JFK was believed to be weak and that he would crumble under pressure. Kruschev thought he could roll over JFK and he planned to do just that. The argument that it was in retaliation for the missiles in Turkey is difficult to square with the intelligence provided by Penkovsky WRT Kruschev's planned use of the Cuban missiles. This probably isn't an argument worth having. Anyone who is familiar with American diplomacy over the last 50 years can plainly see that American strength protects the peace while American weakness results proliferation.