I'd Like To See A More Aggressive

My Solution To The Problem Would Be To Tell [the North Vietnamese Communists] Frankly That They've Got To Draw In Their Horns And Stop Their Aggression Or We're Going To Bomb Them Into The Stone Age. And We Would Shove Them Back Into The Stone Age With Air Power Or Naval Power - Not With Ground Forces.

You [president Kennedy] Have Made Some Pretty Strong Statements About Their Being Defensive And That We Would Take Action Against Offensive Weapons. I Think That A Blockade And Political Talk Would Be Considered By A Lot Of Our Friends And Neutrals As Being A Pretty Weak Response To This [the Cuban Missile Crisis]. And I'm Sure A Lot Of Our Own Citizens Would Feel That Way Too. In Other Words, You're In A Pretty Bad Fix At The Present Time.

Native Annalists May Look Sadly Back From The Future On That Period When We Had The Atomic Bomb And The Russians Didn't. Or When The Russians Had Aquired (through Connivance And Treachery Of Westerns With Warped Minds) The Atomic Bomb - And Yet Still Didn't Have Any Stockpile Of The Weapons. That Was The Era When We Might Have Destroyed Russia Completely And Not Even Skinned Our Elbows Doing It.

I Don't Have Time To Distinguish Between The Unfortunate And The Incompetent.

Don't Like To Do Anything Half-heartedly, Even If It Is A Wicked And Self-destructive Avocation Like Smoking Cigars