The Washington Post, May 1st, 2006
Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s April 24 op-ed column, "Bush's Thousand Days," omitted mention of the failed Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 and the role it played in the Cuban missile crisis. Intelligence mistakes -- including Mr. Schlesinger's own overstatement of the military capabilities of Cuban exiles -- led to an ill-equipped, ill- advised mission resulting in the loss of hundreds of lives, the subsequent isolation of a U.S. neighbor and heightened Cold War tensions. Fidel Castro was not a Soviet-backed communist revolutionary when he seized power. Wary of Mr. Castro, President Dwight D. Eisenho...
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