EveningStar
10-19-2006, 06:53 PM
The myth of the Great Irish F*cking Machine, specifically the Cuban Missile Crisis, is brought under deserved scrutiny here.
Kim Jong-il's atomic blast has some conservative pundits reminiscing fondly over JFK. His response to Khrushchev and Castro exactly 44 Octobers ago, we're now given to understand, was positively Pattonesque...However:
"Many concessions were made by the Americans about which not a word has been said," disclosed Fidel Castro. "Perhaps one day they'll be made public."
"We can't say anything public about this agreement.... It would be too much of a political embarrassment for us." That's Robert F Kennedy to Soviet ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin when closing the deal that ended the so-called crisis...Read the whole article. (http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/10/18/134127.shtml)
Kim Jong-il's atomic blast has some conservative pundits reminiscing fondly over JFK. His response to Khrushchev and Castro exactly 44 Octobers ago, we're now given to understand, was positively Pattonesque...However:
"Many concessions were made by the Americans about which not a word has been said," disclosed Fidel Castro. "Perhaps one day they'll be made public."
"We can't say anything public about this agreement.... It would be too much of a political embarrassment for us." That's Robert F Kennedy to Soviet ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin when closing the deal that ended the so-called crisis...Read the whole article. (http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/10/18/134127.shtml)