Bfgrn
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Bay of Pigs, too bad JFK could not recover from his failure. Afraid to say no as the president, as a Kennedy that killed Nixon in the debates, afraid to say no to subordinates.
I guess he was a liberal after all.
Finally, the REAL you comes out. An asshole.
JFK did say no when the chips were down.
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We now knowfrom the CIA's internal history of the Bay of Pigs, which was declassified in 2005that agency officials realized their motley crew of invaders had no chance of victory unless they were reinforced by the U.S. military. But Allen Dulles and Richard Bissell, the top CIA officials, never disclosed this to J.F.K. They clearly thought the young President would cave in the heat of battle, that he would be forced to send in the Marines and Air Force to rescue the beleaguered exiles brigade after it was pinned down on the beaches by Castro's forces. But Kennedywho was concerned about aggravating the U.S. image in Latin America as a Yanqui bully and also feared a Soviet countermove against West Berlinhad warned agency officials that he would not fully intervene. As the invasion quickly bogged down at the swampy landing site, J.F.K. stunned Dulles and Bissell by standing his ground and refusing to escalate the assault.
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Yell 'ya what. The CIA blatantly lying to the new president was a blessing, for ALL of us. JFK was a quick learner. And he applied what he learned during the Bay of Pigs during the Cuban Missile Crisis. It prevented WWIII, American cities being wiped off the face of the earth and the death of millions of Americans.