Jeffrey Sachs

Normally, you would have a deliberative process.

We know a process that I've studied very carefully, as have many, many scholars, the Cuban Missile Crisis.

President Kennedy immediately installed an executive committee, EXCOMM, and during the 13 days of the Cuban Missile Crisis, they met.

repeatedly, they debated, they discussed options.

It was all put on tape.

It's all been studied for decades later.

Many of the judgments that were made were very wrong.

And one of the lessons, by the way, of the Cuban Missile Crisis was that it was President Kennedy's cool and rationality and decency

that saved the world, actually.

Quite a remarkable truth, because many hotheads and many hotheads in senior military positions, especially Curtis LeMay, said, oh, go blow up the commies.

Let's go to nuclear war.

And almost to the point of insubordination, LeMay was pressing Kennedy to launch attacks.

And basically,

accusing Kennedy of not standing up properly for America.

Kennedy did, saved the world.

But what it showed was a mix of

very detailed deliberation, back channels that were extremely important.

For example, then the UN Secretary General Uttand played a huge role as an intermediary.

And

good judgment of the leader today i can't see any process uh what we hear from outside accounts and again you know better than i but what we read is that this was trump's decision basically yes led by netanyahu that's correct okay netanyahu has an agenda his agenda in my mind is uh fanatical