[Androcles]

Actually this has been out for years and is readly understandable when you consider that the west had no reason to honour their pledges re Cuba and that it presented a permanent base 90 miles from Florida. Witness the hysteria of the botched assassination attempt on Fidel...no one was thinking too clearly and I must admit that from a strategic point of view, I’d have loved to deny the Russians Cuba.

[Verax]

Just to be clear on your position...was it "not thinking too clearly " or was it "readily understandable"

If you mean "readily understandable", please confirm that you mean that you would have supported a DOD plan to commit acts of terror on American citezens as a false pretense for war.

Thank you.

[Androcles]

Oops - re my 1st Post - where it reads "...and is readly understandable when you consider that the west had no reason to honour their pledges re Cuba..." that should be "...and is readly understandable when you consider that the west had no reason to believe the Soviets would honour their pledges re Cuba..."

My bad.