How Did Kennedy Try To Become A Tyrant

The United States, a country founded under the oppressive regime of a tyrant on the notion that all people have basic unalienable rights, repeated mistakes made earlier in the Cold War at The Bay of Pigs. Like his predecessors, Truman and Eisenhower, Kennedy made a fundamental mistake in Cuba; he did not bother to learn about the people, culture, or language of the area he planned to invade. If he had, he would have been made aware of Fidel Castro’s overwhelming support throughout Cuba, and perhaps the entire mission would have been withdrawn before it had the chance to become the military and political fiasco that it was. Even so, the decisions that The United States had previously made were questionable. The imperialistic economic strategies employed, coupled with toppling governments and placing a tyrant at their head seems fundamentally un-American; The United States does, after all, take pride in freedom. There are many conflicts in the decisions of The United States during the Cold War; though it claims to help any country fighting off communism on the pretense of morality, it also topples democratic governments and
He was extremely concerned with image, as he was bred to be. In attempting to cover up the invasion, he inadvertently made it more doomed to failure than it had been in the original edition of the plan. Giving the CIA extreme amounts of power and then blaming the agency when the mission failed seems extremely childish, as if Kennedy was looking for a scapegoat for his poor decisions. Overall, with the failure of the plan due to Kennedy’s last-minute changes and his frustration with his advisors later on, it seems that Kennedy made a better puppet than President. His image was undoubtedly pristine until this point, and remains this way to many older