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Yes, Mr. Sterngold, we didn’t confront the Russians in Budapest

in ’56 and Prague in ’68. We did

precious little in East Germany, Poland, Albania, the Ukraine et al.

The Cuba project showed the same level of effort. Yet we were criticized for even taking this

little steps at the Bay of Pigs, Mongoose was another half measure.

but it apparently too much for the

like of Oswald and the ‘Fair Play

for Cuba’ Committee. It’s ironic that Vietnam was where the major military confrontation of the Cold

War was; not really, it was an extrapolation of what the planners were the ‘lessons’ of the Cuba operation. Ho Chi Minh wasn’t a nationalist; he was closer to a Stalinist than the Maoist Khmer Rouge counterpart/rival. The left

and the ‘malleable’ center used this tragedy commited by a Marxist

partisan to undermine the foun-dations of the country. They used

the experience of the civil rights movement, as a template to judge all political institutions. Those who would support the war at the outset; like Halberstam (for those

valuable tungsten deposits)Moyers, Bundy, Cronkite,Schlesinger, Goodwin, the Wise Men (the precursors to the 9/11 commission in vitro) even BobbyKennedy, turned tail when the situation became more complicated.The same reaction seemed to be ocurring until very recently with this current conflict. That is why by 1972; the proper reaction to the revelation that Howard Hunt had been CIA in All the President’s Men; was not curiosity or even admiration but hatred. Nixon won the ’72 election, but the cultural, legal, and political opposition rendered their own verdict. Carter would follow suit, Reagan was almost derailed in

a similar project in Central America.