no one asked that question, they simply focused upon er the, the communist insurrection in the south and the american, american commitment to the global containment of communism meant that they had to go and do something about it  and domestic political pressures were there too  er president kennedy came out of the cuban missiles crisis a hero because his people mistakenly believed that he'd won a foreign policy success and that he'd acted in a restrained and statesmanlike manor.