The_Bitter_Bear t1_ius9bf8 wrote
For anyone claiming it was just the CIA blundering or the troops being poorly trained I would recommend giving the Stuff You Should Know episode on The Bay Of Pigs a listen. It is a good episode and goes into a lot of stuff that wasn't revealed until long after.
While it was most likely a bad idea regardless, Kennedy made them change a lot of the plan and made an even bigger mess of it. When he started to get cold feet he should have scrapped it entirely, instead he forced them to make changes that pretty much guaranteed it would fail. It also was blatantly obvious the US was behind it still so he didn't even achieve his goal of trying to politically distance the US from it.
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