Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...betrayal of public trust is reason enough for impeachment, then we should have impeached President Kennedy after the Cuban Missile Crisis. During those 13 days in October 1962, President Kennedy reassured the American public that under no circumstances would we trade American missiles for the Soviet missiles in Cuba. Yet, he sent his brother Robert to the then Soviet Ambassador Dobrynin to offer just such a trade. Kennedy offered to remove our Jupiter missiles from Turkey if the Soviets would take their IL-28s out of Cuba. The deal was concluded, and a year later the Jupiter missiles were removed...
Karnow cautioned against calling this new crisisanother Vietnam. "There is a tendency in theReagan Administration to think about CentralAmerica in terms of America's confrontation withthe Soviet Union and Cuba which is the samemistake we made in Vietnam," the former Niemanfellow said...
Professor Womack is an apologist for Castro. He had never raised his voice in protest against the brutal treatment of former Fidelistas in Cuba, brutalities as shown by Armando Valladares to be as sickening as anywhere in the world. Professor Womack is also an avowed Marxist...
What is the strategic case against supporting a resistance that is trying to prevent the consolidation of a second Cuba? Some isolationists might argue that the "loss" of Third World countries does not really matter, and that we can sit behind a palisade of 10,000 nuclear warheads and not care who controls Central America. But the main opposition case is different. It does matter, say the Democrats. And the Sandinistas, they concede in speech after speech, are indeed Marxist-Leninist, expansionist, and pro-Soviet. But they can be contained by American power...
...case for containment: "Washington could state plainly that it will not tolerate any Soviet military base in Nicaragua, or any overt or covert attempt by Nicaragua to attack its neighbors." Now, what exactly does "will not tolerate" mean? One cannot just say it. Carter declared the Soviet brigade in Cuba intolerable. Reagan declared the crackdown on Polish Solidarity intolerable. And the intolerable endured, despite the brave words. To be serious about containing Sandinista subversion -- overt and covert -- will mean vigilance, resources and risk. It will mean everything from pouring aid into El Salvador, Honduras and Costa Rica to establishing...