Readers sound off on foreign policy failures, a Texas primary and the World Series

Readers sound off on foreign policy failures, a Texas primary and the World Series

We do this, we fail, then do it all over again Bloomington, Ind.: The primary goal of the April 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion was the removal of Fidel Castro’s Communist government in Cuba. Planned by the CIA and approved by President John F. Kennedy, the operation relied on a force of U.S.-trained Cuban exiles who would land on the island and ignite a popular uprising. The expectation in Washington was that ordinary Cubans, once given a spark, woul…