Dear Sirs,

John F. Kennedy met with Nikita Kruschev in Vienna in 1961. Kruschev bullied JFK and came away believing that he was a weakling. This led to Russia challenging us with the missiles in Cuba. I was on the inside for that. At one point we were less than five minutes away from a nuclear war. Kennedy blinked. We lost – big. The price we paid was the removal of Thor and Jupiter missiles in Turkey. Those were major strategic assets. They covered most of Russia’s strategic bomber force and were close enough to destroy them on the ground before they could take off. The next push was Vietnam. Russia started sending weapons, supplies and advisers to Hanoi. Kennedy judged that we had to make a stand there. You know how that turned out.

Kennedy’s naivete almost destroyed the world, cost us lives and treasure in Vietnam and tore our society apart.

Obama scares the hell out of me.

Regards,
Roy