Kennedy transported 3,000 troops to subdue the rebellion. ... The manner of the his statements was firm and distinctly redolent of the Monroe Doctrine: "It shall be the policy of this nation to regard any nuclear missile launched from Cuba against any nation in the Western Hemisphere as an attack by the Soviet Union on the United States, requiring a full retaliatory response upon the Soviet Union" (The Cuban Missile Crisis). ...

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