Iran Attacks UAS (Predator)

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Originally Posted by Griff

... something no President since has exhibited. Our armed forces are too powerful for the type of person we elect.

Retold this month is an event 50 years ago: Missiles of October. We did not learn until 1990 how close we came to destroying the entire world. Greatest threat to this world was not Kennedy or Krushchev. Greatest threat were the 'big dics' on both sides who absolutely wanted war. Who only saw solutions in military conflict. A perfect example was Gen Curtis LeMay who said that we are already at war with the Soviet Union. The American people did not yet know it.

LeMay had to be in the Oval Office when he was exposed by Kennedy as lying. Essential so that everyone here could be alive. Robert McNamara literally had to sit constantly in the Pentagon because Kennedy needed someone to keep the Joint Chiefs in line. We know Generals, who could not understand the bigger picture (not the Russians leaders), were the greatest threat. We also know of Russians who did similar actions to stop their 'big dics' from killing us all.

Missiles of October demonstrated a danger. People who routinely see solutions only in military conflict. Who do not understand that we massacre a million servicemen so that only ten people will go back to a negotiation table. Best leaders go to and solve problems at that table without killing any soldiers.

We would not be here if Kennedy had not shown restraint that only great leaders understand.