Word: fiascos
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...Americans seem to have an infinite capacity for doing the wrong thing. The recent fiasco in Cuba is a perfect example of the folly of sending a boy to do a man's job. The American Indians were smarter in this respect. They let the young men do the fighting but reserved policymaking for the old men of the tribe...
Amid the first pained reactions to the Bay of Pigs fiasco, thoughts of sending in the Marines had occurred to many Americans, even including some New Frontiersmen. But within the Administration, the impulse quickly faded away. For a while at least, Castro is safe from any invasion by U.S. armed forces-unless he foolishly gives the U.S. an excuse for intervention by trying to seize the Guantánamo naval base...
...does not want it. In any event, Bobby Kennedy realizes that Allen Dulles has to go, making way for a younger man who can give the CIA a thorough overhauling. But the Kennedy brothers are not angry with Allen Dulles. Indeed, as a man, Dulles emerged from the Cuba fiasco with high personal honors. Shortly before the invasion, he urged a bigger air strike to knock out Cuban planes on the ground before the invaders landed, but he was overruled at the insistence of Secretary of State Dean Rusk. When the invasion flopped, Dulles took full blame...
During the darkest hours of the Administration's soul searching about the Cuban fiasco, Udall went on TV. Attempting to explain that the purpose of Kennedy's meetings with Republican leaders was national unity, Udall remarked: "After all, President Eisenhower and his Vice President conceived this plan. They started it; they, I suppose, in effect handed it on to the President...
...Lerner wallowed in despair: "Love is never enough when pitted against death in an unequal struggle." In the New York Daily News, Ted Lewis sounded almost grateful that "a little of the self-assurance of the Kennedy Administration has rubbed off as a result of the Cuban invasion fiasco." Concluded Columnist Russell Reeves in the Cleveland Plain Dealer: "Cuban events last week demonstrated that life is unlike the television westerns. The good guys do not always...