Bucharest was a tanker that was not believed to carry nuclear weapons, and the public point of the blockade was to prevent nuclear weapons from being shipped to

Bucharest was a tanker that was not believed to carry nuclear weapons, and the public point of the blockade was to prevent nuclear weapons from being shipped to Cuba. If Kennedy was a yellowbelly, what was a 'strong man' supposed to do in his place? End civilization over it? Your hyperfocus on 'winning' every confrontation, no matter the value, and no matter the risk - is destructive and incredibly dangerous. > U-2 plane was shot down and Maj. Rudolf Anderson has died Could you remind us what that U-2 plane was doing, and where it was while doing it? You can't honestly hold the Soviet bloc to blame for shooting down an enemy aircraft over its own territory... Or view Kennedy as weak because he didn't escalate over a clear act of self-defense. They had every right to shoot him down, and everybody knew it.