Trump: 'Attack so successful,' it botched the objective.

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21. good analogy

...it should have forever been cemented in U.S. foreign policy when 17 of Bush's intel agencies concluded in their Natl. Security assessment that his Iraq misadventure, with it's night raids and carpet-bombing was creating more terrorists than the military was able to put down.

I do wonder if the folks who have that institutional and operation memory are still around, or have any influence with this administraton's producers and writers.



Several thousand fighters landed at the Bay of Pigs, or Playa Giron, a small beach in south-eastern Cuba. They soon ran out of ammunition and without American back-up, their mission failed.

Gregorio Moreira was a member of the local communist defence militia. He spoke to Witness about the battle for control of Cuba.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/magazine-36058705