text: judge president kennedys handling of the cuban missile crisis. was he brilliant? was the crisis worrh the risk what are your views? do you think that he made good judgment or did he make a bad decision? why or why not? i do not criticize jfk for the way he handled the crisis, because he knew what the outcome would be because he had the knowledge of the true power of the soviets and knew they would back down and that more sensible minds in the ussr would keep krushev in line. kennedy knew we were so strong that we could destroy russia and so did the russians .  good question