than might have been thought. fidel castro had taken control of cuba in 1959. the country had developed a working relationship with the soviets. and eisenhower favored the overthrow of their new leader but knew the plans were in the earliest stages. jfk agreed with the goal and, in 1961, fast-tracked the bay of pigs invasion, headed by a group of cuban exiles trained by the cia. eisenhower, keep in mind, never did green-light the bay of pigs invasion. so it was a plan that was being really seriously thought about. it was a disaster, ending in a quick surrender and a huge pr victory for castro. well, americans invaded cuba on april 17, 1961. it was my father s birthday. and it was his birthday present. april 22, 1961,
contradictory. we also know he revealed information to russian foreign minister. now what s happened in the meeting? we don t know. it s a line for blackmail to explore in the future. whatever putin is going to say about it. or even worse american al lie lis can be taken as the only recollection. so because there s only going to be one version, and that s putin s version, that s why you think this could be a gold mine for blackmail. yes, but also maybe something else happened at the meeting. because it s unexplainable, reckless at best, that after two hours of meeting with putin saying it was a pr victory,
i wrote an opinion editorial that basically told congress how it can do this and if it abides by that road map and dots its i s and cross it t s it can give president trump a longer term victory, verses this efearial victory he was going for. is this a botch job wourt thinking it through? i don t want to judge them too much because you always make lot of mistakes early in days of administrations but i will say i think the trump administration was getting prethser to throw some bones to its base and that was a short term femeral pr victory. now they have to play the long game on a lot of these issues. because it s quite clear that this trump administration is going to face serious legal
how congress can put spritrings the receipt of freshman funds. i wrote an opinion piece a couple of months ago that basically told congress how it can do this, if that road map dots it s is and crosses it s ts, it can give president trump a longer term victory than this pr victory that he apparently was going for. was this just a rushed botched job by the administration to get this out without thinking i through. zbri don t want to criticize too much, because you always make mistakes in the early days of an administration. that was a short-term sort of pr victory, now they have to sort of play the long game here on a lot of these issues, because its
vulnerability in our strategic and tactical plans. i mean we don t really have one when it comes to syria. maybe we shouldn t. i mean it may be the worse thing to do is to intervene after six years of civil war. it s hard to imagine why he s doing this now, except to get a pr victory. frank, over the weekend president trump there was a quote that stuck out to me that he will reject the path of inflexible ideology. inflexible ideology seems to be steve bannon s brands. right. you wrote a whole column really on what caused president trump to launch these attacks and we re saying on a short level, well, it was the images, his lawyer ivanka. does all of this fit into some new narrative he wants? with trump you never know what is causing a given action because he is ideologically all over the place. he s impulsive and proud of that. i can t help but notice but before this missile strike we were all talking ad nauseam