From: AFP
September 09, 2010 10:01AM
FORMER Cuban president Fidel Castro says he now regrets the actions
leading up to the 1962 missile crisis with the United States.
Asked about his recommendation at the time that the Soviet Union
consider an attack on the United States, Castro told journalist Jeffrey
Goldberg of The Atlantic: "After I've seen what I've seen, and knowing
what I know now, it wasn't worth it all.''
The comments about the missile crisis - which brought two nuclear
superpowers to the brink of war - were part of a wide-ranging interview
the former Cuban president gave to the reporter.
Castro, still head of Cuba's Communist party at 84, said he had similar
concerns that a showdown over Iran's nuclear weapons program could get
out of control depending on the actions of the United States and Israel.
"Men think they can control themselves but (President Barack) Obama
could overreact and a gradual escalation could become a nuclear war," he
said.
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