[marron]

Eisenhower built a Cuban refugee army, and a Tibetan refugee army. Kennedy abandoned both to their fates. The Tibetans were wiped out to a man. The Cubans were dropped off onto a beach with Castro waiting for them.

If you were one of the men tasked to train these men and prepare them for combat, you’d probably be pretty steamed.

[LS]

Ike's "army" was a bunch of wanna-be militias. They had no chance whatsoever, regardless of U.S. clandestine "support," of overthrowing Castro. Now, if you want to argue whether we (the U.S. military) should have gone in full scale, that's a debatable issue. But the guys at the Bay of Pigs were not an "army," and had zero chance of defeating Castro.

Not to mention that the entire fiasco depended entirely on Castro being assassinated before the op actually began.