John Kennedy's Mind vs. Joe Biden's Cheat Sheet
Gratefully remembering President Kennedy's skill in handling the Cuban Missile Crisis
On October 16, 1962, President Kennedy was informed that the Soviets had installed missile sites in Cuba—in theory, sites that could launch missiles capable of performing a rapid nuclear strike against U.S. targets.
“We don’t have any choice except direct military action," Air Force General Curtis LeMay told the president.
Kennedy told a confidante that the worst advice always comes “from those who feared that to be sensible made them seem soft and unheroic.”
Though only 45, Kennedy possessed far more wisdom than General LeMay, who’d long demonstrated an inordinate fondness for blowing entire cities to smithereens. For twelve days, the young president comported himself with consummate prudence and ultimately struck a deal with Khrushchev to remove the Cuban installations in exchange for the U.S. removing its Jupiter missile installations from Turkey.
I’ve long been haunted by the Cuban Missile Crisis, and during the 2020 elections, I asked a few of my Democrat friends if they were concerned that Joe Biden no longer possessed the cognitive ability to handle a major international crisis.
With the United States holding its escalation course with Russia, I was again reminded of Kennedy’s mental acuity in comparison to President Biden’s disorientation. Today I saw a June 24, 2022 report in the New York Post detailing how the president had, during a meeting the day before, inadvertently held up a cheat sheet for how to comport himself during the exchange.
This, in turn, reminded me of my brother’s observation that it’s extremely doubtful that President Biden could erect and administer a lemonade stand. As he put it:
Even equipped with detailed written instructions, it seems unlikely he could perform each procedural step of acquiring frozen concentrate, water, ice, mixing vessel, pitcher, folding table, and cash box, and erecting the ensemble in a public place.
Kennedy not only refused an attack on Cuba; he also rejected the CIA and military Operation Northwoods and escalation to wage war in Vietnam.
These are the level-headed decisions of a man who understands the nefarious machinations of the military-industrial complex of endless conflicts. And it got him murdered.
It is so sad because it is so true. Biden cannot construct 2 complete sentences back to back. We are in a deep crisis. And as we know from history, unlike Kennedy, other Presidents and heads of state have started wars just to stay in power. Biden’s group of advisors who are really running this mess will not willingly step down. So ironic- remember the Dems saying Trump wouldn’t leave? And now we see who the real tyrants are!