Word: marinese
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
"Although it is hard to admit I want marines fighting Cubans, the United States needs to help in all ways," he declared. This means not only military aid to exiles, but moral support for all Cubans.
The lessons of Cuba, in contrast, came with jolting swiftness. Again, Kennedy underestimated his adversary and overestimated the realism of his own expectations. In backing the invasion of Cuba by a force of U.S.-trained Cuban exiles, Kennedy hoped to bring down Fidel Castro's Communist regime in Cuba...
(2 of 10) in the Marines. The invaders-all Cubans-were trained by the U.S., supplied by the U.S., and dispatched by the U.S. to carry out a plan written by U.S. military experts. President Kennedy knew D-day in advance, and had approved.
Possible domestic consequences strike me as even more serious. The "New Frontler" stands exposed as a sham and a fraud, and what is worse, ineffectual against "atheistic Communism." Now the way is wide open to the hardware crowd. They can argue that the gamble falled not because of popular support...