Your position, to which you are entitled, is clarified by your second paragraph's words.
(Regarding the Cuban Missile Crisis, the U.S. did not want an 'offensive' Russian threat ninety miles from our shores while our present support of independent nations in Eastern Europe is a 'defensive' one, as was our presence in Turkey in 1962. I be…
Your position, to which you are entitled, is clarified by your second paragraph's words.
(Regarding the Cuban Missile Crisis, the U.S. did not want an 'offensive' Russian threat ninety miles from our shores while our present support of independent nations in Eastern Europe is a 'defensive' one, as was our presence in Turkey in 1962. I believe that the Russians withdrew missiles from Cuba and we withdrew them from Turkey to resolve the issue.)
Your position, to which you are entitled, is clarified by your second paragraph's words.
(Regarding the Cuban Missile Crisis, the U.S. did not want an 'offensive' Russian threat ninety miles from our shores while our present support of independent nations in Eastern Europe is a 'defensive' one, as was our presence in Turkey in 1962. I believe that the Russians withdrew missiles from Cuba and we withdrew them from Turkey to resolve the issue.)
That's a nice Orwellian use of the word "defensive."
Obviously, you like to engage in polemics, an exercise to which an old professor of mine introduced me.