For the Cuban Missile Crisis, lets not forget that President Kennedy caused it by sticking nuclear missiles in Turkey, which could reach Moscow in 16 minutes from launch (a dileberate attempt to move from MAD to first strike win). This was the reason they put nukes in Cuba. It was an unnecessary provocation. Then, he responded by saying that any nuclear launch from Cuba would elicit MAD launches from the united states. Some initiative, some would say Bush has made the same cowboy mistakes with our nuclear arsenal. Further the Cuban Missile Crisis did nothing to our strategic position. The Polaris was already closer and more deadly than the missiles in Turkey. It could be fired from underwater, right under the russians noses in their own coastal waters.
Don't add "cause 9/11" to my opinion if I didn't state it. I did not. President Clinton dileberatly put the Al Quaeda threat on the back burner several times. Though to be fair any other president might of as well. Still, it was not any other, it was him. He further knee capped them by removing the license to kill usually given to spy/foriegn agent types. They weren't allowed to shoot back if caught. Seriously. He also pulled them all home shortly after that order. No intellegence in the field is so bad its not even worth debating why it should not have happened. Now instead of having people with there ears to the ground all these years, we have people who
have to waterboard to do their job. It's the only way they can get information on short term with no spy network to back them up.
As for democracy, our founding fathers warned against it. We should have had a federal republic all these years.
The Democratic party unified to steal seats from the republicans, and then proceeded to do nothing with their lead. It makes me laugh, because we can either not get things done, or do the wrong things with the republicans who do have very little problem playing nice together.
