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Old 02-20-2004, 01:15   #32
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Part of the reason he didn't play a bigger role in the Missile Crisis is because he wasn't really in favor of having the missiles there. Also, the Russions were mad at him for supporting the Chinese.
If you can spell Colombia and Israel, you can spell 'Russians' too The Russians may have been mad at him, but they had their own reasons for getting the missiles into cuba. Why do you say he wasn't in favor? I thought he set up and announced the deal.

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Castro was actually estimated to be the more radical of the two initially. That assessment was off.
Its an interesting exercise to think about how Castro's revolution would have manifested w/o Guevara. The thing is, Che wasn't political like Castro, politics was only one of the tools he used for his objectives, so he was more free to be radical.
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