ManusJustus said:
I stated that Kennedy was one of the best. I loooked back and saw that typed Lincoln and Kennedy were best American presidents, something that was more of an incomplete thought than a believed fact. To clear it up, JFk is one of America's best presidents. Depending how you define best, that would put him in the top 10 or so based on my opinion. Thats not to mention that these rankings are nothing more than opinions. Look at any sportswriter power rankings for proof of that. A writer has the Miami Dolphins ranked at 25 on ESPN.com? They obviously aren't a proffessional sportwriter and should be subject to ridicule and loss of job. If the dean's office knew that Dr. Barry B. Smith rated JFk as number 6 president of all time he's obviosly not an expert and should lose his job. Ive gone to far. More importantly, the fact that you reverted the argument back to something I said a long time ago, which in fact we were not arguing about initially, shows the weakness of the very reason we were arguing in the first place, the Cuban Missile Crisis. Do I get a win there and you get a win for my ranking system opinion? |
No. Because the Cuban Missle Crisis would of been avoided by most presidents. The Cheifs of staff were for nuking Russia. The Chiefs of Staff were for Nuking russia for the entire cold war.
Why isn't Harry S Truman higher then Kennedy on your list? He also didn't nuke russia when his chiefs of staff told him to... at a time when we were actually at war already.
Truman's plan to not go along with the McArthur plan was a more bold and bigger move then Kennedy not invading Cuba. Which was what it was about. Invading Cuba. Not nuking anyone.
Had we invaded Cuba, Russia likely would of did nothing.
