that proby able to see of the merchant class who came to the u.s. . the people who fled cuba fled castro came primarily to florida. were greeted with open arms in march one thousand nine hundred sixty president eisenhower ordered the cia to launch a covert operation to overthrow the cuban government it would be based in miami and use cuban exiles as the shock troops. were recruited and trained by the u.s. government and the idea was to support them in overthrowing castro get rid of this communist is. spring up play it like a weed in our hemisphere a manifestation code name j.m. wave was the second largest in the world outside of the headquarters in langley. so you can imagine what kind of tentacles that had throughout the community but case office for cubans and. miami was essentially like i find the site blank i was doing the war. back when the when the second will war. nobody was concerned about the employment of the cia and i mean i was day because as i say the cold war was at its pay there was this undercurrent of and trade get when exiles plottin

and if that norm unravels, then -- other norms and probies start unraveling. and that makes for a more dangerous world, and that then requires even more difficult choices and more difficult responses many the future. over 1400 people were gassed. over 400 of them were children. this is not something that we have -- that we are using an excuse for military action as i said last night. i was elected to end wars not start them. i have spent the last 4 1/2 years to reduce our alliance on military power. as a means of meeting our international obligations and protecting the american people. what i also know is we will have to make hard choices if we are going to stand up to what -- if we end up using the u. n. security council not as a means of enforcing international norms and international law, but rather as a barrier to acting on international norms and law, then i think people will be pretty skeptical about the system. and whether it can work to protect those children. sometimes the further we get from the horrors of that, the easier it is to rationalize not ma