Juan Cole doesn't approve American foreign policy driven by national interest or the Cold War.
He doesn't approve past American efforts at regime change or other forms of interference in defense of American property or other economic interests in Latin America.
Speaking of which, there is a lot of money riding on outstanding claims against Cuba for expropriations of American holdings by Castro's revolution, claims the US has not written off.
The piece is professional left, anti-capitalist, anti-American pfiz, history in the style of Howard Zinn.
Kennedy vs. Castro, Khrushchev, and communism.
Round 1. Kennedy decides to go ahead with the Bay of Pigs, gets cold feet after one day, pulls the plug, unwilling to invade to push out Castro.
Round 2. Castro, scared white, invites Russian missiles on condition NK protect him.
Round 3. JFK, scared white, blockades the island, demands removal of the missiles.
Round 4. Castro, mad as a wet hen, demands NK immediately nuke the US. NK refuses, but demands JFK lift the blockade.
Round 5. JFK promises not to invade Cuba and to remove some missiles from Turkey; NK removes the Russian missiles from Cuba.
Kennedy, having lost that round despite US media crowing about "who flinched," and having decided early keeping communism out of Cuba wasn't worth a war, decides keeping communism out of Indochina is worth a war, and arranges a coup in South Vietnam to get a government willing to be his Cold War cat's paw.
Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas.
The US government fabricates a pack of lies about the killing the family rejects, as does the Congress, officially, a few years later.
JFK had sponsored assassination attempts on Castro.
Kennedy was assassinated.
Castro still lives.
But the threat of aggressive, international communism is dead.
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