29-06-2012, 08:21 PM
Albert,
I said that Cuba was an exception.
But that is because Kennedy was snookered into the Bay of Pigs fiasco. If that had not happened, things would have been different there I believe.
As per the Missile Crisis, that was a hare-brained miscalculation by Khrushchev.
But my point is that Kennedy was not going to invade Cuba with American forces. And I believe this was part of the formation of his ideas about imperialism in the fifties. Kennedy knew all about American imperialism in Cuba under Batista. And he was against it.
I said that Cuba was an exception.
But that is because Kennedy was snookered into the Bay of Pigs fiasco. If that had not happened, things would have been different there I believe.
As per the Missile Crisis, that was a hare-brained miscalculation by Khrushchev.
But my point is that Kennedy was not going to invade Cuba with American forces. And I believe this was part of the formation of his ideas about imperialism in the fifties. Kennedy knew all about American imperialism in Cuba under Batista. And he was against it.