The 7 principles of Neoimperialism

[Carl Remick]

>From: "W. Kiernan" <wkiernan at concentric.net>
>
>Carl Remick wrote:
> >
> > The stately melancholy and predictable chess-game rhythms of the
> > cold war seem preferable to today's terrorists-under-the-bed public
> > hysterias and the mercurial militarism of the current Washington
> > establishment.
>
>According to Richard Rhodes's book "Dark Sun" the U.S. Strategic Air
>Command put seven thousand megatons in the air the showdown day of the
>Cuban Missile Crisis; one pilot is quoted claiming his B-52 was a
>half-hour out of Leningrad on a nuclear "bomb-as-you-go" mission before
>they received orders to turn back.  According to Robert McNamara's book
>"In Retrospect," on the CIA's advice that the Cubans had no nuclear
>warheads in-country yet, the U.S. Army had 160,000 ground troops set to
>charge cross the Straits of Florida; however, in fact, the Cubans had at
>least a dozen, maybe as many as a hundred nuclear bombs to greet our
>landing craft.
>
>Those days "seem preferable" only because the world lucked out somehow. ...

Yes, the world was lucky that Khruschev wasn't as insane as Kennedy.

Carl

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