"This Government, as promised, has maintained the closest surveillance of the Soviet military buildup on the island of Cuba.
Within the past week, unmistakable evidence has established the fact that a series of offensive missile sites is now in preparation on that imprisoned island.
The purpose of these bases can be none other than to provide a nuclear strike capability against the Western Hemisphere....
Neither the United States of America nor the world community of nations can tolerate deliberate deception and offensive threats on the part of any nation, large or small.
We no longer live in a world where only the actual firing of weapons represents a sufficient challenge to a nation's security to constitute maximum peril.
Nuclear weapons are so destructive and ballistic missiles are so swift, that any substantially increased possibility of their use or any sudden change in their deployment may well be regarded as a definite threat to peace."
This Speech is full of rethorics and one of the most clear one is when he says "America and other united nations wont tolerate this" and this is a generalization. He uses genetic falllacy because he hates Cuba and the USSR and talks about them as if they were all bad. He uses circumnstancial because he says the nuclear bombs and missiles might lead to something in the future. And I think
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