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Originally Posted by Frame57
Wrong analysis! Those missiles were obsolete, and hardly a loss strategically for the USA. Far better to have them out of Cuba. Also Kennedy would have taken on the USSR. The newly formed SEAL teams under command of the late R.H. Boehm were on the ground and in position if ordered to take out the missiles. I know...I knew the man.
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Where did I say that taking the missiles out of Turkey was a bad move?
Apparently JFK had already planned to take the missiles out of Turkey before the crisis erupted. As a result, he had a convenient carrot to offer ol' Nikita to solve the crisis.
But regardless of the obsolescence of the missiles or JFK's prior plans, the fact remains that it was JFK's carrot that got the missiles out of Cuba, not the stick.