Today\’s paragraph(s) – there are two instead of the usual one – come to us from Scott Johnson, writing at powerlineblog.com, where he discusses the speech President Obama made yesterday in which he exhorted congress to approve the “deal” he and John Kerry cooked up with Iran:
Obama\’s potted history of the Cold War includes this revealing nugget: “With Kennedy at the helm, the Cuban Missile Crisis was resolved peacefully.” The Cuban Missile Crisis was resolved, of course, by the American naval blockade of Cuba that brought us to the brink of war and led to the capitulation of the Soviet Union.
The Soviet Union\’s capitulation included the dismantling and removal of the nuclear facility that American intelligence had found under construction in Cuba. Surely there is a lesson here somewhere for our present predicament with Iran, though it runs counter to the one Obama draws. As always, when he is not ignorant of the relevant history himself, Obama prefers to exploit the ignorance of his audience.
Scott Johnson wins today\’s honors for his powerful, factual and deservedly cutting remarks about both the true history of what happened during the Cuban missile crisis, and President Obama\’s fraudulent rewriting of it.
How can anyone believe a thing this man says?
