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::Yes, but it wouldn't seem right to say that Kreuschev and Moscow had no role in the decisions. He probably had the authority, but with the understand not to do so unless there was a move of force by the US, or upon word by Moscow. That may explain the Rudolph Anderson shootdown. This information might be good together in a section. Gotta go for now. [[User:Mskreuz|Mskreuz]] 14:16, 6 June 2007 (EDT)
::Yes, but it wouldn't seem right to say that Kreuschev and Moscow had no role in the decisions. He probably had the authority, but with the understand not to do so unless there was a move of force by the US, or upon word by Moscow. That may explain the Rudolph Anderson shootdown. This information might be good together in a section. Gotta go for now. [[User:Mskreuz|Mskreuz]] 14:16, 6 June 2007 (EDT)
:::Actually that's not the case at all. Too often this crisis is portrayed as a confrontation between the two big men, Kennedy & Khruschev, staring each other down, with Khruschev being the first to blink. This has led to a total misperception among the American public, espoused by the American media, of what the Soviet system was and how it operated. Khurschev was not Kennedy's counterpart in this confrontation, with his finger on the trigger, being the last man who had the final decision to launch or not. It was the Soviet commander on the ground in Cuba who had the blank check to decide, should a threatening military situation arise, to nuke America to kingdom come. This misperception of Soviet politics persists, and there has always been unrealistic representations to the American people in US/Soviet Summits, that the Soviet counterpart has equal status with the US President, or that the Soviet system of decision making in military affairs was somewhat analagous to the US, the militiary being subordinated to the civilian, for example. [[User:RobS|RobS]] 15:03, 6 June 2007 (EDT)
:::Actually that's not the case at all. Too often this crisis is portrayed as a confrontation between the two big men, Kennedy & Khruschev, staring each other down, with Khruschev being the first to blink. This has led to a total misperception among the American public, espoused by the American media, of what the Soviet system was and how it operated. Khurschev was not Kennedy's counterpart in this confrontation, with his finger on the trigger, being the last man who had the final decision to launch or not. It was the Soviet commander on the ground in Cuba who had the blank check to decide, should a threatening military situation arise, to nuke America to kingdom come. This misperception of Soviet politics persists, and there has always been unrealistic representations to the American people in US/Soviet Summits, that the Soviet counterpart has equal status with the US President, or that the Soviet system of decision making in military affairs was somewhat analagous to the US, the militiary being subordinated to the civilian, for example. [[User:RobS|RobS]] 15:03, 6 June 2007 (EDT)
::::Okay, I do agree that the Soviet Commander had the authority to make that decision. But the thing was, the United States had said that if those missiles aren't out of there by X Date, we will remove them for you. So the commander in Cuba knew that either by that date, or unless the United States made a move, to hold off, because The US and USSR were trying to strike a deal on this, because nobody wants to get nuked. (That's rather bad....) So that commander is either waiting for word from Moscow, or a turn of events that would call him to make a decision.
Based on what I've seen, I think that the government in Moscow had the higher authority over that comander to either launch those missiles, or retreat them, as we saw done. So Kennedy and Kreuschev (And their governments)were trying to strike a deal that said that they wouldn't do what they said they'd do. That's just my take on this. What's your thoughts on this? (I'm thinking I won't write anything on this in particular, as it sounds too controversial.)
BTW, I did get Un-Banned. YAY! [[User:Mskreuz|Mskreuz]] 14:53, 7 June 2007 (EDT)