Kennedy's Response to the Cuban Missile Crisis

JFK is given a you know one of the some of the briefing notes show the threat posed by these missiles. The US has the Monroe Doctrine which says nobody can come to the western hemisphere it's the US divine right okay and this so this isn't a front to that that's how they that's how these guys see it  of course an imperialist mindset but in response to this McNamara presents JFK with three options You can either go for diplomacy to get rid of thisYou have a naval quarantine of Cuba or an air attack to destroy the missile missile sites Kennedy rejects the attack and instead goes for quarantine which is a euphemism okay It's to buy time to negotiate a missile withdrawal and they