JFK's biggest, most consequential mistake was the assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem. His second was abandoning Laos. The two in combination sucked us into Vietnam on the worst possible strategic terms.https://twitter.com/jonathanchait/status/1410342579619647494 …
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Replying to @baseballcrank
We could have also avoided the Cuban Missile Crisis had we taken out Castro in 1961.
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Replying to @GiancarloSopo @baseballcrank
Yes on the Bay of Pigs. Canceling the second wave of airstrikes, moving the invasion site to a swamp, flying from Nicaragua instead of from Florida so JFK had some sort of supposed deniability, all disastrous decisions.
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Replying to @AlbertoMiguelF5 @GiancarloSopo
My uncle flew in a CIA airplane at the Bay of Pigs & never forgave JFK. You don't mess with an amphibious invasion plan approved by Dwight Eisenhower.
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Hard to avoid the conclusion in retrospect that hte resources etc we spent in Vietnam should've been used overthrowing Castro instaed
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Yes. Better rate of return. Vietnam was a just cause, but that didn't mean we needed to commit half a million Americans on the ground.
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Might have totally stopped the communist advance in Latin America, also who knows what would've happened if the Cubans hadn't been around to save the communist regime in Ethiopia or to whip up a rebellion in Congo. Plus no missle crisis etc...
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No Cuban troops in Angola...
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No Chavismo either. Oh well!
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