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To: .cnI redruM
The only regrettable thing about hiring Sam Giancana and his "Outfit" to assassinate Castro is that their attempts did not succeed.

At the time of the Cuban missile crisis, the Communists had been entrenched in the Soviet Union for over 40 years. Domestic opposition, including post-World War II guerrilla warfare in the Baltic States and Ukraine, had been ruthlessly crushed well before 1962. Millions of regime opponents were killed in the Gulag under Lenin and Stalin. Those Russians and others who had fled Communism were in no position to take power over such a vast nation from their exile in places like Paris or New York. The Soviet Union was far more powerful than Cuba, and Communist rule was not dependent upon the charisma of one man. Assassinating Khrushchev would have only resulted in another Communist taking power, just as the assassination of Kennedy (or for that matter Lincoln, McKinley, or Garfield) did not cause our government to collapse.

Assassination is a tool that would have worked against the Cuban regime, but not against the Soviet dictatorship. I doubt anyone in a position of responsibility in the 1960s considered assassinating Khrushchev.

59 posted on 08/25/2005 7:07:53 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: Wallace T.
>>>>>I doubt anyone in a position of responsibility in the 1960s considered assassinating Khrushchev

We are thankful that none of them did. Can we ascribe the same level of judgment to the potential cabinet selections of a possible President Rodham-Clinton?

I remember posting yesterday a thread about George Stephanopolous advocating that we whack Saddam Hussein in 1997. How well would we have been prepared for what Muqtada Al-Sadr and the Iranian Mullahs reaction to that vacuum without any surge of troops to the area before hand?

I feel very strongly that the Framers of The US Constitution limited Presidential Power for a reason.
60 posted on 08/25/2005 7:12:59 AM PDT by .cnI redruM (Dear Pat: A Reverend represents God, not The Godfather)
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