"Walking out of a meeting with top military advisors, Kennedy threw his hands in the air and said...

[drokhole]

“These people are crazy.”

for an incredibly brief backstory:

This was in 1961, when Kennedy refused to concede to the insistence of his top generals to give them permission to use nuclear weapons in Berlin and Southeast Asia (later remarking to Secretary of State Dean Rusk "and we call ourselves the human race").

http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=did_the_us_military_plan_a_nuclear_first_strike_for_1963


Now Obama needs to realize that the people he's dealing with are even crazier than the trigger happy war hawks from the Cold War, and to stand his ground. Love the walk out today, would love to see even more of Kennedy - and less Reagan - from the guy.