I remember the Cuban missile crisis of 1962 very clearly. I was in high school at the time and avidly following politics and world events. We had a leader, President Kennedy, who was in command with excellent advisors, including his brother, Attorney-General Robert Kennedy. President Kennedy was able, by back-channel diplomacy, to close a deal with Soviet leader Khrushchev by giving him a face-saving arrangement allowing Khrushchev to withdraw the missiles from Cuba, while NATO removed missiles from Turkey. Today, in stark
