Posted on 03/21/2016 3:30:09 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
First, in many ways, the president’s initiative to normalize relations with Cuba isn’t so much ending their isolation as ending ours. Cuba has enjoyed good and growing relations with our neighbors across the hemisphere for years. In recent years, those countries have threatened to exclude the U.S. from hemispheric meetings if we continued to demand that Cuba’s exclusion. We have sought to isolate Cuba for over 50 years; we ended up isolating ourselves.
Second, for many across the world, Cuba, not the U.S., has been on the right side of history. Cuba stood with Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress while the U.S. was supporting the apartheid government and labeling Mandela a terrorist. When South Africa invaded Angola in the mid-1970s to block the independence movement there, it was Cuba, not the U.S. that sent troops to force South Africa’s withdrawal. One of the first visits Mandela made after he was freed was to Havana to thank Fidel Castro for his support, hailing the Cuban revolution as “a source of inspiration to all freedom-loving peoples.”
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STFU, you pathetic, evil, pinhead of a man.
Not unless they’ve fallen off of a barstool.
Second, for many across the world, Cuba, not the U.S., has been on the right side of history.
What an absurd statement, considering that communism is mostly on the ash heap of history. And the remaining communist countries in the world, including Cuba, have been introducing free market reforms. So who is really on the right side of history????
Not that he doesn't think those things.
One of the first visits Mandela made after he was freed was to Havana to thank Fidel Castro for his support, hailing the Cuban revolution as “a source of inspiration to all freedom-loving peoples.”
Considering the mess that post apartheid post Mandela South Africa is descending into, I’m not sure that praising South Africa’s evolution, and Castro’s support of same, is supposed to inspire all of us.
Oh. So Jesse and Fidel are opposed to political prisoners, eh?
Jesse Jackson, meet Hank Johnson.
That would be better than seeing Guam rolling over, I think.
Only after too many Papa Dobles.
Turn the map around, you dummy!
I was thinking same thing...Cuba tipped over. :)
Marble mouth speaks! what the hell is he talking about?
He probably thinks Stalin was on the right side of history, too.
As opposed to Jesse Jackson, who sees everything upside down.
For many decades, Jesse’s top foreign policy advisor was Jack O’Dell, aka Hunter Pitts O’Dell, aka John Vesey. He was one of the Communist Party’s top organizers in the South, going back as far as the 1950’s according to a congressional hearing by the House Committee on Un-American Activities on “Communist Party Activities in the South” (about 1956).
O’Dell wormed his way into becoming Dr. King Jr’s personal secretary/aide, and when exposed, was covertly given a job at the SCLC’s New York office, until exposed again.
Then he was hired by Jackson’s fake poverty group “Operation Breadbasket”, which morphed into “Operation PUSH” and later, The Rainbow Coalition.
In each of these organizations, id. CPUSA member O’Dell was roughly entitled “Director of International Relations” or the equivalent.
O’Dell was also a key playing in the pro-No. Vietnam/VC protests known as the various “Mobilization Committees Against the War in Vietnam” and then PCPJ (Peoples Coalition for Peace and Justice), the CPUSA split off of New Mobe in their internal fight with the Trotskyite Socialist Workers Party (SWP) and its faction, NPAC (National Peace Action Coalition).
Much of this information can be found in a series of HCUA and its successor, the House Internal Security Committee (HISC) hearings and reports from the 1967 Spring Mobe report to the 1970 comprehensive (and heavily footnoted) New Mobe and Its Predecessor Organizations. Then came the 4 part PCPJ/NPAC hearings in the early 1970’s.
Other sources of information on O’Dell and these organizations can be found at www.keywiki.org and www.DiscoverTheNetwork.org, among others.
O’Dell was also a key sponsor of the pro-PLO propaganda organizations the “Palestine Human Rights Campaign” and the “Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee”. A key article on O’Dell and the Palestinians appeared in the Jewish Week (DC) in the early 1980’s, and he was key promoter of Jesse Jackson’s pro-PLO/Palestinians platform in his presidential run of 1988 (it was even reported in the Wash. Post though the reporter never identified O’Dell as a CPUSA operative).
In fact, based on documents seized in O’Dell’s New Orleans apartment in 1956, they indicated that he was a KGB asset, if not a KGB operative. Run of the mill CP members did not have Soviet organization manuals among their book collections.
Jackson is not only an adulterer, a liar, a con-artist, a criminal (he could be charged with numerous fraud/extortion incidents), an egomaniac, but he has a decades long list of support for both CPUSA and SWP fronts and causes, as well as contacts with Soviet and radical Arab countries and organizations.
In other words, Jackson is both a fool, a maniac and a traitor.
If Holder did sleep with him, then she was very desperate and he was an adulterer posing as a minister. He must have been a leader of “The Church of I’m Going to Get as Much as I Can and Whorehouse”.
60% of South Africans prefer the Apartheid government than the present day.
That’s a lot of blacks thinking the ANC is worse. However the left stopped caring about South Africa the day Mandela was sworn in.
it is an island similar to Guam
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