Comments by "Itinerant Patriot" (@itinerantpatriot1196) on "Shall we wipe Cuba off the Map? | The Cuban Missile Crisis I Day 01" video.

Interesting subject. I look forward to seeing how you cover the remaining days. That said, there are a few points that need to be addressed. Bobby Kennedy wasn't put in charge of Mongoose only a few days before the crisis began. He had been in charge of the "Get Castro" movement within the executive branch since writing the post-mortem on the Bay of Pigs with Maxwell Taylor and Allen Dulles in 61. By October 62 he was maniacal on the matter, pushing Bill Harvey, who was running the covert stuff going on in Cuba, and Richard Helm who had taken over special operations from Richard Bissel that year to the breaking point. It was his habit of going around the CIA's formal channel's and making a lot of noise on the island in support of his brother's insistence that something be done about Castro that led to the crisis in the first place. John McCone had good intel and was trying to warn them about missiles in Cuba for months but the Kennedy's thought they knew better. And there wasn't a great deal of tension between Maxwell Taylor and the Kennedy's. Bobby Kennedy named one of his kids after him and he was godfather to another. He was also one of the primary drivers of Flexible Response, and Counter-Insurgency, two of the bedrocks of Kennedy's foreign policy and Cold War strategy. he was considered more of an egghead and theorist by his military colleagues than a hawk. That's not to say he wasn't a soldier, but he wasn't cut from the same cloth as someone like Curtis LeMay.
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