Carl Remick wrote:
"JAMES BLIGHT: Kennedy took one look at Cuba after the missile crisis and said I'm out of here. I don't want to mess with these -- look it almost got us blown up. Let's -- OK, you got to do a little something with the covert operations and Bobby, my brother, will handle that. But no more messing around so that the Soviets come in here. I don't want this island on my chart anymore."
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This fucking guy was unbelievable. A Brown professor no less. He has the appearance, the diction and the erudition of the characters featured on shows like "American Chopper" or "Monster Garage".
BTW, the film somehow neglected to mention that the US had 15 Jupiter IRBMs based in Turkey, 150 miles from the USSR, at the time that Bay of Pigs impresario JFK was huffing and puffing about the outrage of Soviet missiles in Cuba. Johnny, we knew ye all too well ;-)
I deal with these questions in depth in a review of Max Frankel's book on the Cuban missile crisis for an upcoming issue of RRPE. It first has to be approved by a peer review panel consisting of Leo Panitch, James O'Connor and Immanuel Wallerstein. The chutzpah and the lies of the Kennedy brothers and the crew around them is not to be believed. It staggers the imagination that people like Oliver Stone could view JFK as progressive. Well, after "Alexander", maybe not.
For me the biggest hoot was hearing Norberto Fuentes say that the Sandinistas won because Havana had tapped into the Somozista army's two-way radios and were warning the guerrillas about ambushes. If I could track down the email for the imbecile who put this documentary together, I'd send her one of my Lazlo Toth specials:
Dear Ms Bosch,
I really appreciate your revelations about Cuba intercepting Nicaraguan army communications and tipping off the Sandinistas. This fact has been suppressed by the dirty Communists and Jews who control the American media. However, you should have mentioned Castro's meddling in El Salvador's internal affairs as well. It is a well-known fact that the FMLN guerrillas were not really Salvadoran but Cubans in disguise. My understanding is that FMLN leader Schafik Handal was actually the well-known Cuban rumbero Miguel "Pupi" Lopez, who recorded the smash hit "My love throbs for you like an eel in heat" in 1977.
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