Kennedy’s handling of the Bay of Pigs operation has always been baffling to me. The plan had begun during the Eisenhower administration, and JFK never really backed it. He changed the landing site from Trinidad, Cuba to the Bay of Pigs. This already put the landing force at a disadvantage because the first beach was more easily defended, closer to other forces aligned against Castro, and had an escape route into nearby mountains. Then he refused to follow through with promised air strikes. After it was all over he fired the three top men at the CIA as scapegoats.
If he didn’t believe in the plan, why didn’t he just cancel the damn thing?
The Democrats are a party of panderers. When it comes to leadership, they have nothing.
Because if he had done that there was a chance that the Free Cubans would have put together a strike of their own and won.
He could not allow that.