{"id":5800,"date":"2012-10-23T01:48:38","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T05:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldstocksforex.com\/?p=5800"},"modified":"2012-10-23T01:48:38","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T05:48:38","slug":"the-myth-that-screwed-up-50-years-of-u-s-foreign-policy-by-leslie-h-gelb-foreign-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2012\/10\/23\/the-myth-that-screwed-up-50-years-of-u-s-foreign-policy-by-leslie-h-gelb-foreign-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Myth That Screwed Up 50 Years of U.S. Foreign Policy &#8211; By Leslie H. Gelb &#124; Foreign Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Leslie H. Gelb<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What people came to understand about the Cuban missile crisis &#8212; that JFK succeeded without giving an inch &#8212; implanted itself in policy deliberations and political debate, spoken or unspoken. It&#8217;s there now, all these decades later, in worries over making any concessions to Iran over nuclear weapons or to the Taliban over their role in Afghanistan. American leaders don&#8217;t like to compromise, and a lingering misunderstanding of those 13 days in October 1962 has a lot to do with it.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the crisis concluded not with Moscow&#8217;s unconditional diplomatic whimper, but with mutual concessions. The Soviets withdrew their missiles from Cuba in return for U.S. pledges not to invade Fidel Castro&#8217;s island and to remove Jupiter missiles from Turkey&#8230;&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/articles\/2012\/10\/08\/the_lie_that_screwed_up_50_years_of_us_foreign_policy\">The Myth That Screwed Up 50 Years of U.S. Foreign Policy &#8211; By Leslie H. Gelb | Foreign Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Leslie H. 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