A big puzzle about the fascination with the Cuban Missile Crisis is:
Problem is, you are not prepared
for the change that takes place in here...
and in here- in your gut
and I can guarantee you that none of the people in Moscow, or in Washington
who were managing this (and probably a lot of them in Cuba)
nobody really could figure out:
Khrushchev thinks that Kennedy wants a war?
"I saw him last year, he didn't seem like that kind of a guy..."
Now Castro has his own problems.
It's a crisis
Crisis... think about that.
Repeat this word over and over again.
What if that was on your shoulders?
Put that load up here, unexpected, and you start to crack... crumble.
You're in a crisis.
This was discussed, a coup, the military takes over and they launch...
You don't prepare, that's why you have to get rid of the weapons.