Posted on 07/11/2008 12:45:29 PM PDT by Daniel T. Zanoza
What Would America Do if Situation Were Reversed? Kennedy Taught Us A Lesson
RFFM.org Commentary
Barack Hussein Obama says we should use diplomacy with Ahmadinejad, the President of Iran, regarding that nation's plans to develop a nuclear weapon. This wouldn't be bad advice if that same Iranian leader had not promised to wipe Israel off the face of the Earth. And, with a nuclear weapon, that threat one day would become a reality.
It is obvious Mr. Obama has never heard of the saying, "Those who forget history are bound to repeat it." And Obama has also forgotten what Democratic President John F. Kennedy did when the former Soviet Union installed strategic nuclear weapons just 90 miles off the Florida coast in Fidel Castro's Cuba.
Kennedy didn't call for bilateral meetings, including the Soviet Union and Cuba, for those who may have forgotten something called the Cuban Missile Crisis. Even though Kennedy essentially caved to some Soviet demands...
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