sir will be to demand that the Soviet withdraw the missiles within 12 to 24 hours The will refuse When they do you will order the strikes followed by the invasion They will resist and be overrun They will retaliate against another target somewhere else in the world most likely Berlin We will honor our treaty commitments and resist them there defeating them per our plans Those plans call for the use of nuclear weapons So... what is the next step? Hopeful cooler heads will prevail before we reach the next step Thank you, gentlemen What happened in there? I thought he was going to give us his decision Look, I know them. They just need to... make sure there's no other way They'll get there The Kennedys' father was one of the architects of Munich There's only one responsible choice here So let's hope appeasement doesn't run in families I fear weakness does Jesus Christ Call me Irish, but I don't believe in cooler heads prevailing You know, they think I froze in there You didn't freeze You did exactly what you should have done you stayed out of the corner You didn't decide Acheson's scenario is just... unacceptable And he's got more experience than anyone There's no expert on the subject There's no wise old man Shit, there's just us Acheson's right Talk alone is not gonna accomplish anything Well, let's bomb the shit out of them Everybody wants to Even you Even me Right? It sure would feel good Jack I'm as conniving as they come but a sneak attack is just wrong Things are happening too fast This is starting to smell like the Bay of Pigs all over again Tonight listening to Taylor and Acheson I kept seeing Lemnitzer and Dulles telling me all I had to do was sign on the dotted line And that the invasion would succeed and Castro... and Castro would be gone Easy, just like that There's something... immoral about abandoning your own judgment We just can't let this get out of hand And we'll do whatever we have to do to make this come out right I'm gonna stay here tomorrow You can't We talked about this. Your schedule? Best thing you can do tomorrow is go to Connecticut He's right Yeah Jesus Doesn't anybody in Connecticut have to work today? We love you, JFK The shole spectrum of air strikes is the minumum response the Joint Chiefs will accept No, no, no There is more than one option here And if one isn't occurring to us it's because we haven't thought hard enough Bobby, sometimes there is only one right choice and you thank God when it's so clear You're talking about a sneak attack How would that make us look? A big country blasting a little one into the stone age We'll be everyone's favorites Come on, Bobby. That's naive You know that better than anybody And you weren't so ethically particular when we were talking about options for moving Castro at CIA Bob If we go ahead with these air strikes you know what it'll come to in the end There has got to be something else Give it to me I don't care how crazy, inadequate or stupid it sounds Give it to me Six months ago we gamed out a scenario It's slow It doesn't get rid of the missiles It's got a lot of drawbacks The scenario calls for a blockade of Cuba The situation is worse than we thought We now count 40 missiles 40 missiles Longer range IRBM's They can hit every place in the country, except Seattle Mr. President you give me the order right now my planes will be ready to strike in 3 days time Just say "go" and my boys will get those red bastards General, how long until the Army's ready? We've just begun the mobilization under cover of a pre-arranged exercise, sir We're looking at another week and a half But you can order the strikes now The plans call for an eight day air campaign It'll light a fire under the army's ass to get in place General Lemay, do you truly believe that's our best course of action? Mr. President I believe it is the ------------------------------ Читайте также: - текст Конан-варвар на английском - текст Бегство художника на английском - текст Джо на английском - текст Десять негритят на английском - текст Команда мечты на английском |