[Peace-discuss] Chomsky…

[Carl G. Estabrook]

We featured this article on AOTA today.

A theme of Chomsky's article I took to be that events were not under control - note the 'hair-raising' testimony from the military - and could have gone badly wrong, not so much from the particular decisions made in a week in October, but because of the general policy of the US, which allowed such things. --CGE

On Oct 16, 2012, at 7:40 PM, David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Interestingly, one of the historians referred to by Chomsky (Boggs) writes in the NYT that nuclear war wasn't that close after all. I'm not sure I believe him.
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/16/opinion/the-eyeball-to-eyeball-myth-and-the-cuban-missile-crisiss-legacy.html?ref=opinion
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> DG
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> From: Morton K. Brussel <mkb0029 at gmail.com>
> To: Peace-discuss Discuss <peace-discuss at anti-war.net> 
> Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 6:02 PM
> Subject: [Peace-discuss] Chomsky…
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> It article could use some editing, but is nonetheless morbidly fascinating to read. Chomsky reports on the events in and around 1962, when nuclear war was barely averted in the Cuban Missile crisis. Recently revealed  White House documents about the crisis, which he has studied, are the raison d'etre for this article.  He brings the recounting of this history up to date, and ruminates on how it applies to our past and ongoing policies. Analogies to Iran are made, surrounded, subverted and terrorized as was Cuba in those days. 
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> http://www.thenation.com/article/170596/cuban-missile-crisis-and-ownership-world?rel=emailNation"#
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