[Mouton]

A couple points about the Cuban Missile Crisis. The first is we underestimated the range of the missiles there.

The second, the USSR had ringed Cuba with missile armed subs capable of taking out any of our air craft carrier battle groups.

Time for a few SR 71 flights over Venezuela and locate those areas, pay the UN a cursuary visit and begin invading Venezula as soon as possible. Do not expect as much help from the OAS as we received in 1962 as most of SA is now commie. Oh, one last thing, we would probably have to get approval from China to use the Panama Canal to move any military assets from the Pacific.

[GonzoGOP]

The second, the USSR had ringed Cuba with missile armed subs capable of taking out any of our air craft carrier battle groups.

No missile boats. The Soviets had a few Golf I SSB and Whiskey long bins class SSG in service in 1962, but none were in Cuban waters. And the Golf's couldn't attack carriers in any case as they carried land attack missiles. The first of the carrier killing Juliet class cruise missile boats didn't even go into service until 1963.

The Soviet Navy deployed four Foxtrot subs to Cuba. US Navy destroyers dropped Practice Depth Charges near the subs off Cuba in efforts to force them to surface and be identified. Three of the four Foxtrot subs were forced to surface, one eluded US forces. Some of their torpedoes had nuclear warheads to they certainly could have messed up a carrier if they could have gotten to them. However four diesel boats hardly counts as ringing the island. And there were no missile boats at all.

[GonzoGOP]

Time for a few SR 71 flights over Venezuela and locate those areas,

One other point. The SR-71s were long ago retired from service. And even if they were still in service the recently delivered Venezuelan S-300VMs would make short work of them. (120 mile range, 98,000 ft altitude, can intercept targets flying at speeds of up to 4,500 m/s) With the Russians selling kit like the S-300VM to anyone with more money than sense you need to be either invisible or in orbit. High and fast just doesn't cut it any more.

[Domestic Church]

Might as well take back the canal while we are at it, don’t you think?