Thank you for your service Joseph A. Cammalleri, but politically speaking you have fallen well below glide path.

President G. W. Bush said he would not falter or fail in his effort to prevent another attack on our homeland like the one on 9/11 for which Clinton had paved the way with his dereliction of duty. And for the next 88 consecutive months, he made good on that pledge - - in large part by turning Iraq an excrement magnet to draw Islamic fanatics into fighting us there instead of here.

“Calm thinking and proper negotiations” most assuredly did NOT play “a primary role in eliminating that threat of war” in 1962. JFK’s cowardice in running away from Bay of Pigs so soon after all that inaugural hooey (“we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe”) revealed to a grateful Khrushchev that he faced a punk kid in WAY over his head. 

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