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To: dead
The reality of the Cuban Missile Crisis is that it was neither resolved by diplomacy nor by threat of war.

It was resolved by a weak sister named John F. Kennedy caving in to the Soviets.

Kennedy got the Soviets to remove the missiles by removing our missiles from Turkey and agreeing not to invade Cuba in the future.

The US backed down and encouraged 30 more years of Soviet expansionism, exacerbated by Kennedy's equally cowardly successor's failure to assist the Czechs in 1968.

This is what Ron Paul thinks the US should do: whatever the enemy wants as long as he does not hurt us today.

20 posted on 10/04/2007 9:12:13 AM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that so many self-proclaimed "Constitutionalists" know so little about the Constitution?)
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To: wideawake
This is what Ron Paul thinks the US should do: whatever the enemy wants as long as he does not hurt us today.

Paul thinks we needlessly create enemies, and suffer "blowback" from interventions.

Paul did not advocate cooperating with Bin Laden, but rather killing or capturing him via letters of Marque and Reprisal.

34 posted on 10/04/2007 10:09:21 AM PDT by secretagent
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