Sunday, May 8, 2011

Aftermath (2)

Actual Date: May 8, 2011
Historical Date: April 21, 1961

It has just come to my attention that Secretary of State Robert F. Kennedy has just released a statement about the Bay of Pigs invasion. A picture of it is copied below.


The bay of pigs was a huge disaster for the United States. Che Guevara sent a note to John F. Kennedy through secretary of the White house Richard Goodwin. It said, "Thanks for Playa GirĂ³n (Bay of Pigs). Before the invasion, the revolution was weak. Now it's stronger than ever." The Bay of Pigs actually did the exact opposite of what it was supposed to. Guevara said that before the Bay of Pigs, defectors from the regime was a huge problem. But now, they are experiencing none of it because, "[The]revolution left the opportunists, the ambitious, and the fearful far behind and now advances toward a new regime free of this class of vermin."

President Kennedy was so mad at the CIA and its incompetence that he said he wanted" to splinter the CIA in a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds."

The invasion truly was a worse case scenario for the United States. We lost in every aspect of the battle.

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