Tag Archives: Bay of Pigs

Sun Tzu

WaPo Reporter: JFK ‘The Flat-Out Absolute Worst U.S. President Of The 20th Century’

Tom Ricks is no conservative.  He was a military reporter for the Washington Post and describes himself here as the grandson of Democratic Party politicians in Massachusetts. He has this to say about Camelot in Foreign Policy: “As I studied the Vietnam war over the last 14 months, I began to think that John F. Kennedy probably was [...]
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Humberto Fontova

Che Guevara at the Bay of Pigs

Castro and his groupies hail The Bay of Pigs as his crowning glory: “Imperialism’s First Defeat!” Never mind that Castro’s forces got one of the most inglorious stompings in modern military history. Castro and his groupies hail Che Guevara as the chief icon of the Cuban Revolution and Cuba’s most dashing and masterful military man. Never [...]
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Humberto Fontova

An Anniversary Of Heroism And Shame—The Bay Of Pigs At Fifty

“They fought like tigers,” writes the CIA officer who helped train the Cubans who splashed ashore at the Bay of Pigs 50 years ago this week. “But their fight was doomed before the first man hit the beach.” That CIA man, Grayston Lynch, knew something about fighting – and about long odds. He carried scars from [...]
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Humberto Fontova

Air Cover for Libyan Rebels, None for Cuban Freedom-Fighters

“Where are the planes?” kept crackling over U.S. Navy radios 50 years ago. The U.S. Naval armada (22 ships including the Carrier Essex loaded with deadly Skyhawk jets) was sitting 16 miles off the Cuban coast near an inlet known as Bahia de Cochinos (Bay of Pigs). The question—bellowed between blasts from a Soviet artillery [...]
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Humberto Fontova

A Genuine Black American Hero for Black History Month

Black History Month ends soon – so can I nominate a genuine Black American hero for next year’s? Don’t look for this from Oprah, Tavis Smiley, The Congressional Black Caucus, or anywhere in the MSM including (especially!) The History Channel, or PBS. Instead, look to the second in command of the freedom-fighters who hit the Bay [...]
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Humberto Fontova

CNN (Castro News Network) Honors its Moniker

“Fidel Castro is one hell of a guy!” Ted Turner gushed to a capacity crowd at Harvard Law School during a speech in 1997. “You people would like him! Most people in Cuba like him.” Within weeks CNN was granted its coveted Havana Bureau, the first ever granted by Castro to a foreign network. Bureau [...]
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D.L. Adams

So Alone – JFK and the Unspeakable

JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died & Why It Matters by James W. Douglass Orbis Books, 2008 510 pages, with Appendix, Notes and Index. - One month before his trip to Dallas, President John F. Kennedy returned to Boston. Stealing away from a Harvard football game with just a few friends and no press contingent Kennedy visited the grave [...]
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Humberto Fontova

Michael Moore Salutes Cuban-American Veterans

When Japan’s ferocious General Tomoyuki Yamashita (“The Tiger of Malaya”) finally emerged from his headquarters on Luzon to surrender he handed his pistol, samurai sword and battle flag to the nearest U.S. soldier he saw. This was Cuban born, Manuel Perez-Garcia. At war’s end the 82nd Airborne presented a special trophy to the U.S. soldier who [...]
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Kent Clizbe

Negotiate with the Taliban—How Many Eggheads Make an Omelette?

Obama wants to negotiate with the Taliban? What sort of brilliant strategist devised that idea? I’ll see your Holbrooke, and raise you a Hillary. Not since the waning days of the Johnson administration has America had so many clueless eggheads deciding the course of our history. A holdover from Kennedy’s presidency, National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy [...]
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Humberto Fontova

The Missiles of October –What Hollywood and Camelot’s Court Scribes Omitted

Thirty eight years ago today, on October 14, 1962 JFK’s National Security advisor, McGeorge Bundy, appeared on ABC’s “Issues and Answers” to rebut hysteria from some tinfoil-hatters of the time. “Nothing but refugee rumors,” sneered Bundy regarding reports from Cuban- exiles about Soviet missiles going up in Cuba. For months, Cuban freedom-fighters (mostly youths and college [...]
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