Jimmy Carter's Butterfly Garden - what a birthday celebration

[malaise]

10. We all wonder

Things would be different.
Still the news yesterday that Kissinger and Ford were planning to bomb Cuba if they had won the 1976 election should make us celebrate Carter's victory.

http://www.bbc.com/news/29441281
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US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger drew up plans to "smash Cuba" with air strikes nearly 40 years ago, government papers obtained by researchers show.

He was angered by Cuba's 1976 military intervention in Angola and was considering retaliation if Cuban forces were deployed elsewhere in Africa.

The information comes from documents declassified at the request of the National Security Archive.

The documents from the Gerald R Ford Presidential Library show that US officials devised plans to attack ports and military installations in Cuba in addition to measures ordered by Mr Kissinger to deploy Marine battalions based at the US Navy base at Guantanamo Bay to "clobber" the Cubans.

Kissinger... was insulted that a small country would ruin his plans for Africa and was essentially prepared to bring the imperial force of the United States on Fidel Castro's head”

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So they killed Allende instead.