Obama, on Cuba, is right. Period
No! The Castros are tyrants of the first order, as bad as tyrants get. Kennedy should not have derailed the exiled Cuban Patriots' invasion and should have never changed the landing site. He should have never halted air support and should have backed up the Patriots with U.S.. Marines and U.S. air support. Batista was a bad hombre, but Castro was far worse.
Actually, the U.S. should have claimed Cuba and held it as a territory after winning it from Spain in the Spanish American War.
Neo-con foolishness ever lives. Amazing. Kennedy derailed nothing. With the air power that had been promised, the invasion forces could have survived an extra four or five days at the most.
What the far right neo-cons (then they were leftist neo-cons) hat to admit was that the Cuban rose up and beat down the 'liberation' brigade of mercenaries.
Wow, just fucking wow! you know nothing about the incident except what you read in Left Wing articles. Well, the whole second Marine division was on standby and two U.S. Aircraft Carriers were standing by off shore waiting for the 'go' orders that never came. How do I know? I just happened to be serving in the U.S. Navy with the security clearance and in a job that required me access to classified material on the subject.