Wait, I don't agree with my topic title at all, but I have a quote from a recent Ann Coulter blog entry where she describes Thirteen Days as "a falsely heroic portrayal of JFK's disastrous handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis."
Do you agree or disagree?
Thank God that it was JFK making the decisions and not a media whore like Ann Coulter. She would have sent the world into oblivion to serve her own purpose.
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This is slightly off topic, but it is a shame that Adlai Stevenson never won the big election. He'd have made a fine president.
shareI wonder about that sometimes. Stevenson was a thoughtful, intelligent, capable man - admirable traits - but I have doubts that he had the political talent to be "successful" as president. Wrestling with Congress and a national constituency is literally orders of magnitude more difficult than governing a state, even Chicago/Illinois. His failure to beat Eisenhower, who was everything Stevenson was not, in '52 and '56 is telling. And if Stevenson had won in 1960, he might have been thoroughly beaten down by 1964, opening the door for Goldwater.
A parallel to 1980?
And how would he have handled Vietnam?!
Oh, my God! They're turkeys!
Interesting post and informative post. I believe Stevenson was not the stuff Presidents are made of. I bet the Republicans wished that Eisenhower could have run for a third term in '60. What would have happened then?
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Coulter is a screeching imbecile and nothing she ever says about politics, especially international military situations, should ever be taken seriously.
I suppose in Coulter's little paranoid pea brain the perfect conclusion to the Cuban Missile Crisis would have been the U.S. reducing the U.S.S.R., most of Eastern Europe, and Cuba to cinders so we could jump up on top of a chair and say, "Woo hoo, we won! KNEEL BEFORE UNCLE SAM!!"
In the meantime, half the East Coast of the U.S. would also have been hit by nukes as well, so while we might have flattened the Soviets and their satellites and probably scared the Chinese into leaving us alone for 20-30 years, in the meantime we would have had 20-40,000,000 dead of our own.
Whoop dee doo, we win.
The words Nixon and Cuban Missile Crisis together scare the crap out of me.
I agree. I don't think those two would have gone together well.
An excellent book that truly tells the Crisis like it was is "Averting 'The Final Failure': John F. Kennedy and the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis Meetings" (Stanford Nuclear Age Series) by Sheldon M. Stern.
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Harmonica: An ancient race.
disagree, Kennedy and his men kept us from a nuclear war. Coulter and her kind think we can win any war just because we are the US of A. She doesn't know history at all.
shareI agree. She once said on FOX that Eisenhower and Nimitz were Confederate generals. That's a pretty bad grasp of history right there.
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Harmonica: An ancient race.
>>> but I have a quote from a recent Ann Coulter blog entry where she describes Thirteen Days as "a falsely heroic portrayal of JFK's disastrous handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis." Do you agree or disagree?
There is something very cowardly and dishonest about this thread: people are heaping abuse upon Coulter. But what not one person has done has been to actually cite Ann's stated reasons for making the above statement and attempt to refute them, which is one of the main things that should be transpiring in this thread.
It should be against the law to use "LOL" unless you really did LOL!
There is something very cowardly and dishonest about this thread: people are heaping abuse upon Coulter. But what not one person has done has been to actually cite Ann's stated reasons for making the above statement and attempt to refute them, which is one of the main things that should be transpiring in this thread.
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Ann Coulter...seriously. That hag is a shameless political hack.
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