THE BOTTOM LINE Obama demonstrated wisdom - not weakness

 

 

Published September 17, 2013

THE BOTTOM LINE

Obama demonstrated wisdom - not weakness

By

leon hadar

Washington Correspondent

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"HOMAGE to Plain Dumb Luck" was the title that Dean Acheson, one of America's legendary Cold War strategists, chose for his analysis of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. Then-president John F Kennedy was "phenomenally lucky" in resolving the nuclear showdown with the Soviet Union, he contended. He also argued that Mr Kennedy's management of the crisis, and especially his negotiations with then-Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev "was a gamble to the joint of recklessness, but skilfully executed, with the idea contributed by Robert Kennedy".
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