Anyone else getting those ‘worried feelings’, kind of like the ones produced in later Oct. ‘62, in their gut tonight? This has the potential to go completely insane for the planet.
Nope. I’m feeling all warm and fuzzy actually.
“Anyone else getting those ‘worried feelings’, kind of like the ones produced in later Oct. ‘62....”
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You mean having a P.Chem and Unit Operations exams back to back?
For all that I didn’t care much for the Kennedy Administration, that crisis was a whole lot different. In spite of the Bay of Pigs disaster, there were competent people in that Administration. Khrushchev could believe they meant what they said. They had seen war.
With Obama, you can almost bank on the opponents’ threats chasing us off. We’ve moved from meaningful military action to “a shot across the bow” at most. We are moral cowards, less even than paper tigers. Putin has got to be sitting up wondering, “How much can I really get away with?”