The real problem with this argument is that JFK wasn’t a hardline Cold Warriorhttps://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1360324199072624643 …
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I don't know where that's from but as I noted earlier, JFK was the only member of his administration who opposed using force during the Cuban Missile Crisis; he rejected using air power in the Bay of Pigs and using force in Laos; signed the nuclear test ban treaty ...
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... and was skeptical about escalation in Vietnam
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It’s a little weird to cite a move *away* from “massive retaliation” as evidence he was a hardline Cold Warrior.
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Away from massive retaliation meant much greater involvement in small wars and counterinsurgency (which happened). This is from Thomas G. Paterson's Kennedy's Quest for Victory (Oxford, 1989).
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