The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara

I originally saw it in the theatre, then bought a copy of it on DVD.

I think Amazon should have it. Netflix may have it on DVD.

My favorite documentary. I tell anyone who likes documentaries it's a much watch. May watch again!

Does he explain why they allowed Khrushchev to drag his nuts across their foreheads during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

I agree. One of my favorites.

Saw this when it first came out. Very good documentary for a democrat

Actually they dragged their nuts across Kruschev's forehead. Kruschev was so discredited at home that he soon was removed from power after the Cuban Missile Crisis. Of course, I realize that right-wing hacks are sorry that JFK prevented a nuclear war.

Why "for a Democrat?"

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Actually they dragged their nuts across Kruschev's forehead. Kruschev was so discredited at home that he soon was removed from power after the Cuban Missile Crisis. Of course, I realize that right-wing hacks are sorry that JFK prevented a nuclear war.

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When that invasion failed at the Bay of Pigs in 1961, unfortunately that wasn’t the end of the matter. The CIA proceeded to initiate terrorist attacks and acts of sabotage on the island. Even worse, it entered into a partnership with the Mafia, one of the world’s most criminal organizations, to assassinate Castro.

Needless to say, Castro knew full well that the U.S. military and the CIA had not dropped their obsession with regime change after the fiasco at the Bay of Pigs. He also knew that there was no way that the Cuban army and the Cuban people could possibly defeat U.S. forces in a full-scale U.S. military invasion of Cuba.

So, Castro turned to the Soviet Union for help in deterring another U.S. invasion of Cuba, who then payed a visit to the island, only this time they brought "Luca Brasi" with them and assured President Kennedy that either he cease with any notion of invading Cuba again or the whole southeastern portion of the continent would be evaporated.

So, what were the terms of the deal that JFK entered into with Khrushchev to settle the Cuban Missile Crisis? The first thing Kennedy did was pledge that the United States would not invade Cuba. Thus, in one fell swoop, Kennedy permanently dashed the hopes, dreams, and obsessions of every single person in the Pentagon and the CIA, whose lives were entirely devoted to ridding the world of communism, especially the communist regime 90 miles away from American shores.

He also secretly pledged to Khrushchev that he would remove U.S. nuclear missiles based in Turkey that were aimed at the Soviet Union.

So in conclusion,

Soviet objective: Protect Cuba from US invasion.

Result:
1)Agreement with the Soviet Union that the United States would never invade Cuba without direct provocation.
2)Withdrawal of American nuclear missiles from Turkey and Italy.
3)Creation of a nuclear hotline between the United States and the Soviet Union thus ultimately making this a safer world to live in.

Khrushchev orchestrated some of the finest "nut dragging" of the 20th century and he accomplished this through fear alone. Remember, Castro wanted him to fire his missiles, but Khrushchev said nyet.

I'm sorry that your little President, the "grandfather of all future soyboys" and his little "Irish curse" got played on the world stage, and it's too bad that Curtis LeMay isn't alive to give his opinion on the matter, in which he likened Kennedy's handling of the CMC as worse than the Munich Appeasement.

You need not bother with complaints about length of post, because if that's the case you probably don't have the intellect to follow anyway.

And btw, Khrushchev's removal had nothing to do with the CMC and everything to do with his break with China and the food shortages experienced in the Soviet Union of that decade.

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Kennedy made Kruschev back down and pull the nuclear missiles out of Cuba without resorting to invading Cuba (something I know that little rightwing hacks like yourself love - war - so long as they aren't part of the shooting, such as Dick Cheney and George W. Bush). In the eyes of the world, Kennedy won and Kruschev lost. Unless you think that getting the nuclear missiles out of Cuba while avoiding WWIII wasn't an accomplishment (I know it's hard for little rightwing hacks like you to give just credit to anyone with a (D) and not an (R) in front of their name). And btw, you are full of crap, the outcome of the Cuban Missile Crisis DID hurt Kruschev politically back home. He was out of office within a year of the CMC. It had nothing to do with your lame claim about "China."

You remind me of that clueless little Marine who at the end of "A Few Good Men" asks, "When do we go back to our unit."