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The Real Cuban Missile Crisis Analogy
Tom Trinko / American Thinker
Liberals have been attacking Senator Tom Cotton and the other 46 Republican Senators for telling Iran that a bad deal with Obama will last no longer than Obama is in office.
Liberals have begun using the Cuban Missile Crisis as an analogy:
“I cannot imagine the Congress of the United States writing a letter to Khrushchev in the midst of those discussions and saying, ‘Don’t worry about this guy Kennedy, he doesn’t speak for our country,’” said Sen. Angus King, a Maine independent, harkening back to the tense Cuban missile crisis showdown between President John F. Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. “And yet that essentially is what took place (Monday).
While the Cuban Missile Crisis is a good analogy, liberals are getting it all wrong; the reality is that the Cuban Missile Crisis shows why the Senate letter to Iran was not only good but morally necessary.
Because President Kennedy is an enshrined saint of modern liberalism, what he actually thought must be supressed; liberals have forgetten that he was a very hawkish Hawk.
By todays standards President Kennedy would be a conservative Republican if not a Tea Party Patriot — Kennedy opposed abortion, pushed through a tax cut, and authorized the invasion of Cuba as well as our involvement in Vietnam.
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