Posted on 12/18/2014 9:14:32 AM PST by LibertarianTreehugger
On the rare occasion I find myself in agreement with President Obama, I get nervous.
It just feels like a setup. Like someone's going to pull the rug out from under me at any moment.
But right now, I have to admit, I was very pleased to hear the news that the U.S. and Cuba are moving to normalize relations.
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People into propaganda distribution tend to avoid specifics.
You are being thick.
Point to the 'specifics' in the declaration of independence. Freedom and Liberty are the specifics.
EXCUSE ME! One of us needs to take a step back.
Point to the 'specifics' in the declaration of independence. Freedom and Liberty are the specifics.
If I ask you for directions how to get to a specific location. Your directions amount to get in the car and drive till you get there.
The sad thing is that he and are are kin and he turned me onto this list.
We all haZ our burdens ;) You however, have my sympathy to go with them. Not that it helps.
I am floored, and should not be, at how liberal supposed conservatives are today. In the early days, his statements would have gotten dogpiled around here. Hard and fast. Because there is no conservative basis for that position. None.
What parts of Freedom and Liberty don't you understand?
You want a planned economy? All the rules spelled out by a huge government?
“Forgot about the Bay of Pigs or the Cuban missile crisis? Only communist countries get in bed with Cuba, so I guess that’s why Obama now did what he did.”
Obama and Castro are kindred spirits. They are big gubmint leftists who believe that the ends justify the means, and results don’t really matter. They can hang out and enjoy a nice Cuban Cohiba cigar together.
Cuba ranks higher on the world health organization bogus “study” of healthcare.
Ok.
Yet strangely, nobody in Miami is swimming across the Florida Straits to get to Cuba for healthcare. Go figure.
Fidel Castro’s ideology and Marxist ideology has lost. Everyone knows it. Game over.
Again, Cuba remains a totalitarian state, a gulag. It is almost exactly like North Korea in that regard. Rewarding such a regime (as long as it remains under the thumb of the dictator Castro, whether it is Fidel or Raul) is unimaginable. That the President of the United States in enacting this newest ghastly change APOLOGIZED for American policy to a criminal murderer like Raul Castro, and then getting a lecture from him, I simply have no words.
I’m frankly shocked at your attitude with respect to it. We’ve discussed your unhappiness with your Congressman, but if my member (if I had a non-Democrat) got up and took the position you did, I’d want them run out of office on a rail. We’re not going to see eye to eye on this.
In a year or two from now you and the Mrs. will be getting your vacation plane tickets to fly down to Havana and stay at the new Trump resort and casino. :=)
The closest I’ve been to Havana was Key West and the Dry Tortugas. Also about the closest I was to being married. In any event, I don’t patronize Cuba until Cuba is liberated. Lining the pockets of the Castros with filthy lucre is unacceptable.
Bravo Sierra.
They are a totalitarian, vicious, terroristic regime. Any legitimacy we give them, absolutely detracts from our own...which is not surprising under this administration.
The president exchanged true moles/spies for this gentleman who was brought home. Moles and spies who have American citizen’ blood on their hands.
Sorry...but I am not buying the swill this article is pedaling.
Look at the American invasion of Sicily during World War II. Americans used mobsters to convince Italian leaders to switch sides. Was that wrong? It probably kept World War II from dragging on for an extra year by forcing Hitler to divert troops into Italy for a third front, troops which he badly needed for his wars in the Eastern Front against the Soviets and for the Western Front against the Americans, British, and later the Free French.
Bad things happen in war. Sometimes really bad people offer themselves as allies, and the consequences of saying “yes” are less bad than saying “no.”
But we're now a half-century beyond the Cuban revolution. The Mob long ago lost its properties and interests in Cuba, and in any event, it is much less important today than it was in the 1950s and 1960s. Cuba needs to be dealt with today as one of the world's last remaining Communist governments, and the fact that Cubans nationalized Mob-owned property of American citizens a half-century ago has very little relevance to today's reality.
Coca-Cola was mob-owned? Who Knew?
Lots of legitimate American businesses also lost their investments when Castro took over.
pepsi_junkie’s point was that mobsters were mad when Castro took over. True, and in the 1960s it was relevant, but it isn't today.
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