Read the quote and answer the question. How did the Cuban missile crisis change President Kennedy’s view of foreign policy? Kennedy no longer believes that peace with the Soviet Union is possible. The focus is still on using every available means to defeat the communists. His focus is on peace with the communists rather than on defeating them. We must conduct our affairs in such a way that it becomes in the communists’ interest to agree on a genuine peace. Above all, while defending our vital interest, nuclear powers must avert those confrontations which bring an adversary to a choice of either a humiliating retreat or a nuclear war. —President John F. Kennedy June 10, 1963