Agreeing to the Deal

You think that Khrushchev's deal is a good one, for all parties involved. Sure, you'll have to tolerate a communist country 90 miles from your shores, but it'll be a communist country without weapons. Harmless. Puny. Nothing. 

While your speechwriters are crafting your speech, the CIA director storms into the Oval Office with a new development. 

A U-2 spy plane, flying low over Cuba in an effort to gain the most accurate images of the missile sites, has been shot down by a surface-to-air missile. The plane and pilot were both lost in the attack.

He informs you that the Cubans do not own surface-to-air-missiles, so the attack could only be launched by one country... 

With a deal on the table and a new situation arising, what do you do?

1. Scrap the deal and attack Cuba. Shooting down a U.S. plane is an act of war!

2. Ignore the situation and accept the deal. The greater good, avoiding a possible war, outweighs the attack on the U.S. plane. Besides, the planes were not, technically, supposed to be invading Cuban airspace.