Rangarira ndima iri pasi apa uye ipapo pindura mubvunzo gare gare mumutauro mumwe chetewo sechikamu:  Passage: The EXCOMM ipapo yakakurukura tapuro pachiyero chamasimba chamasimba, zvose zviri zviviri zvematongerwe enyika nezvemauto. Joint Chiefs of Staff vakatenda kuti zvombo zvacho zvaizochinja zvakakomba mwero wemauto, asi McNamara haana kubvumirana nazvo. 40 yokuwedzera, akarangarira kudaro, yaizoita musiyano muduku kuenzanisiro yenzira yose. United States yakanga yatova nemisoro yehondo inokosha inenge 5 000, asi Soviet Union yakanga ine 300 bedzi. McNamara akagumisa kuti maSoviet ane 340 nokudaro haasati achizochinja zvikuru mwero wehurongwa. Muna 1990, akadzokorora kuti "zvakanga zvisina musiyano.... Chiyero chemauto hachina kuchinjwa. Handina kuzvitenda panguva iyoyo, uye handizvitendi zvino". EXCOMM yakabvuma kuti zvombo zvacho zvaizokanganisa zvematongerwe enyika. Kennedy akanga avimbisa zvakajeka vanhu vokuAmerica mwedzi isingasviki imwe dambudziko risati rasvika kuti "kana Cuba ikagona kuita chiito chokurwisa United States... United States yaizoita chimwe chinhu". Uyewo, kuvimbika pakati pavakabatana navanhu veUnited States kwaizokuvadzwa kana Soviet Union ikaoneka kuti inogadzirisa mwero wamasimba masimba kupfurikidza nokuisa zvombo muCuba. Kennedy akatsanangura pashure penhamo yacho kuti "zvingadai zvakachinja kuenzana kwesimba mune zvematongerwe enyika. Zvingadai zvakaonekwa, uye kuoneka kunobatsira kuti zvinhu zvive zvechokwadi".  Mubvunzo: Isangano ripi rakataura nezvokudzikamisa simba rezvematongerwe enyika nerechiuto?
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