I just watched a film about the Cuban Missile Crisis [View all]

[Cyrano]

It was titled "Thirteen Days."

What struck me most was the nature of the people in the White House. Not only John Kennedy, but those around him. Their integrity, their moral compasses, their brilliance, and their own doubts about their own brilliance, were exactly the traits needed for the world to pull back from the brink of nuclear war.

I believe that had any other group of people been running America at that time, we could well have ended up in a nuclear ashes. The last war there would ever be.

Then I thought of today, the president we have, and those who surround him. And the only emotion that strikes me is fear. Donald Trump is an ignorant, arrogant man who is leading a Know-Nothing constituency. The people with whom he has surrounded himself know little more about American and world affairs than he does.

Were the Cuban Missile to occur today, the world would be a cinder tomorrow.

The person who occupies the White House, and the people advising the president really do matter. And we deserve far better than we have now. Then again, given the fact that this horrible Trump creature is sitting in the Oval Office, might be signaling the possibility that America has gotten the president it deserves.