Free People, Free Markets. George Melloan
the deal not publicized at the time. As Secretary of State Dean Rusk put it: “We were eyeball to eyeball and someone blinked.”
By the end of the month, Royster was able to write that the Cuban Missile Crisis seemed to be ending in a “significant victory for the U.S. and President Kennedy in particular.” The editorial went on to say that when the United States was willing to deploy its power, it could put the enemy on the defensive and even on the run.
But there was a lesson for peace as well: “Some people around the world did a good deal of hand-wringing at the forceful American policy on Cuba and the Kremlin; anything, including surrender, it seemed to them, was preferable to the high risk of war. But the truth is that the Soviet missile installations were a threat to peace and only by our risking war could peace be preserved.”
JFK had indeed won a major battle, but the Cold War was by no means over. And, there are some plausible interpretations of his assassination just over a year later that suggest that his success in embarrassing Fidel Castro and Nikita Khrushchev might have cost him his life. No one will ever know for sure what motivated the assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, but his Soviet and Cuban connections will always give credence to the theory that his death was a consequence of a Soviet desire to extract vengeance for its missile crisis defeat. The KGB was capable of any imaginable atrocity.
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