A sneak attack would be counter to what the United States stands for. It leaves us no room...
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Robert McNamara:
A quarantine prevents any more missiles from reaching Cuba, but it doesn't remove the missiles already there; it gives the Soviets a chance to pull back without a war. If they refuse to remove the missiles, we retain the option to strike and invade. Robert Kennedy:
A sneak attack would be counter to what the United States stands for. It leaves us no room to maneuver, and the inevitable Soviet response would force us into a war
A quarantine prevents any more missiles from reaching Cuba, but it doesn't remove the missiles already there; it gives the Soviets a chance to pull back without a war. If they refuse to remove the missiles, we retain the option to strike and invade. Robert Kennedy:
A sneak attack would be counter to what the United States stands for. It leaves us no room to maneuver, and the inevitable Soviet response would force us into a war
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A quarantine prevents any more missiles from reaching Cuba
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but it doesn't remove the missiles already there
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It gives the Soviets a chance to pull back without a war
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If they refuse to remove the missiles
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we retain the option to strike and invade
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A sneak attack would be counter
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to what the United States stands for
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It leaves us no room to maneuver
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and the inevitable Soviet response would force us into a war
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Movie Summary
In October 1962, the Kennedy administration struggles to contain the Cuban Missile Crisis.
