Happy Bay of Pigs Day!
By Today is the fiftieth anniversary of the US supported invasion of Cuba, an operation which solved that Castro problem once and for all. In support of my COIN seminar this semester, Patterson screened both ends of Steven Soderbergh’s Che, which was exceedingly long and not really all that good. To bring these themes together, I have dubbed today Counter-Insurgency Day at Keeneland, on which we drink Cuba Libre’s and bet heavily on horses with vaguely COIN oriented names.