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why is the bay of pigs so controversial? im doing a paper on it and trying to understand it but im having a bit of trouble as to why its controversial.. is it controversial due to the fact that it should have never happened.. do some people believe that it shouldnt have been attempted while others do? any ideas please? I just dont really understand the controversy of it.
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It's controversial because, as the_goat said, it was a proxy war. The United States equipped other people to do the dirty work for us. Had it all worked out and Castro was killed and the people of Cuba revolted as was expected/planned, it would probably be seen as a success. But since it did not work out that way, and it was a massive failure with all fingers pointed at the US, it receives a different grade from history.
However, to compare the Bay of Pigs to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor is misguided and naive. Arming a group of rebel Cubans is not the same as outright attacking a non-aggressor, especially when history shows us they quite clearly were not armed well enough for an invasion. To compare that to the extremely brutal, systematic bombing of Pearl Harbor, even on principle, is bizarre.
There is also no such thing as sovereignty or human rights.
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The United States infringed upon the sovereignty of Cuba by having a proxy force trained by the CIA attempt to overthrow the communist regime. what is not controversial about that? its like training your neighbor's dog to kill your neighbor in his sleep. The United States, under the Kennedy administration, made a serious error of judgement in this. Imagine what would happen if we took ten thousand Iranian immigrants, trained them, and used obsolete U.S. aircraft flown by CIA pilots to air-drop them back into Iran. Diplomacy(and overthrowing hostile regimes) is about being subtle, this was an overt act of war without prior declaration of hostilities. we pretty much did what the Japanese did at pearl harbor, but with different tools. and that continues to be referred to as "a date which will live in infamy.".
different side of the same coin.
-gunner
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