[Does so]

No air cover—repeated during the last days in Afghanistan.

[Nifster]

Sadly the way America. Has fought every war since

Permission to fire. Denied

Such insanity. And shame

[nopardons]

BTTT

[DiogenesLamp]

...that their most powerful enemies were not Castro's Soviet-armed and led soldiers massing in Santa Clara, Cuba, but the Ivy League's Best and Brightest dithering in Washington.

Corrupt rotten "elite" making horrible decisions.

Kennedy never got the hatred he deserved for what he did.

[Sirius Lee]

The CIA was founded via Operation Paperclip by unrepentant nazi intelligence officers whose fascist beliefs permeated the culture of that organization. That belief system still exists to this very day. Once you understand this, everything they’ve done over the past half century start to make sense in its own ugly way.

[sauropod]

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[M Kehoe]

Bttt.

5.56mm

[G Larry]

WHY?

I have never heard the answer as to why JFK decided not to provide the authority to engage.

Lots of guesses about Soviet pressure, but no seemingly knowledgeable explanation.

[Fedora]

Grayston Lynch, mentioned in the article, wrote a whole book on this, Decision for Disaster, taking issue with accounts of the Bay of Pigs promoted by the Kennedy administration via Ted Sorensen, Haynes Johnson, Arthur Schlesinger, etc. He places the blame for the failure of the operation heavily on Schlesinger for convincing Kennedy to announce U.S. non-support and especially on Secretary of State Dean Rusk for rejecting the original invasion plan and then calling off the air strikes over CIA objections. Rusk had been part of the "Red" Dean Acheson faction in the Roosevelt/Truman State Department and was trying to bring people like Walt Rostow and Alger Hiss back under the JFK administration--Rusk had actually succeeded the position Hiss held, and he persecuted State Department security investigator Otto Otepka for refusing to clear Hiss and for complaining to the Senate about lax security at State--so his motives are suspect, in my opinion.

[minnesota_bound]

The democrats always abandon America.