[OldCorps]

In negotiations aimed at ending the standoff in the city, the insurgents have demanded that the Marines pull back their snipers.

lol, had there been a democrap in the whitehouse, they would have complied...Just as did Clinton, Johnson and Carter when in similar situations. Kenedy was just as bad: when the Cuban freedom fighters needed air support at the Bay of Pigs on the beach, he told the navy to pull the plug on the operation...leaving thousands to be killed or captured.

[Smokin' Joe]

Actually, the air strikes would have wiped out the Cuban Air force on the ground and would have kept the invasion force from being slaughtered on the beach (and short of it)by Cuban air support for the Communists. Kennedy did indeed pull the plug, and killed the operation as well as the invasion force.