Flutterby™! : Cuban missile crisis

The Atlantic: The real Cuban missile crisis. Yet more indication that we've had a bunch of whackjobs whose primary purpose is advancing the military industrial complex and redirecting money in leadership roles.

Indeed, Washington’s self-regard for its credibility was almost certainly the main reason it risked nuclear war over a negligible threat to national security. At the same meeting in which Kennedy and his aides were contemplating military action against Cuba and the U.S.S.R.—action they knew could bring about an apocalyptic war—the president stated, “Last month I said we weren’t going to [permit Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba] and last month I should have said … we don’t care. But when we said we’re not going to, and [the Soviets] go ahead and do it, and then we do nothing, then … I would think that our … risks increase.”