Gareth, are you delusionary or what? I'm not trying to duck and hide a thing. What are you on about anyway?

You asked a question, I gave an answer.

You want a transcript of the tit for tat debate between Adlai Stevenson and V.A. Zorin at the UN emergency Security Council meeting called by Cuba to try and keep the US from bombing them back to the Stone Age?

Go here:

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1962-cuba-un1.html

The UN DID offer to do a great deal to resolve the crisis, which was blown off by the US.

A few of those things the UN attempted to do:

1. Fly air reconnaissance in the place of US military.

2. Enter all Cuban ports as official UN observers to inspect all cargo entering and leaving the country, including what the Kennedy administration referred to as "offensive weapons" photographed at the missile sites.

3. Negotiate an end to the US military blockade.

It should be noted that then Sec Gen U Thant was skeptical about US intelligence claims, because of the nuclear chicken game that the US military, at times without the knowledge or permission of the President of the US, was playing with the Soviets. The Soviets sending nukes into Cuba was a response to the US sending it's missiles to Europe and the Middle East, as others here have noted.

The US military was fucking out of control, and JFK was clueless about it until after the fact. SAC went to DefCon2 without informing the president, blew off a couple of nukes in the Pacific and Vandenberg AFB, also without informing the President. U Thant was begging for a cooling off period, which Krushcev agreed to but JFK DID NOT. The US Navy illegally boarded a Soviet ship on high seas, and fucking Walter Lippman tried to broker a Cuba/Turkey withdrawal of nukes deal between Kruschev and Kennedy.

JFK, with the help of Robert MacNamara in particular, fucked up plenty of shit when they created the nuke crisis.

Now, how about you give us some of your exhaustive knowledge about all this? Or are you just doing your usual right wing bellyaching about somebody starting a JFK worshipping thread?