Posted on 12/22/2017 9:14:24 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
Oh sure, the Fake News Media (in Castros pocket since 1957) went berserk with gratification and joy, hailing the December 17th 2014 diplomatic disgrace with Stalinist Cuba as an opening! a landmark! a diplomatic milestone! a legacy-builder! blah blah blah
In fact, that infamous date marks a whimpering U.S. surrender to a terrorist regime that had kidnapped a U.S. hostage named Alan Gross. The snickering Cuban terrorists then dangled their hostage in front of the whimpering Obama, offering to exchange him upon the freeing and return to Stalinist Cuba of multi-convicted Castroite spy/terrorist/murderer (of American citizens) Gerardo Hernandez and his accomplices.
This blackmail by the mass-murdering Communists on our doorstep gave Obama just the excuse he needed to finally and officially--buddy-up with them, a Democrat craving for decades.
In brief: Obamas Cuba legacy (for the folks who actually bother to study this issue) is simply one of shame, disgrace and humiliation for the USA .And oh! Almost forgotincreased poverty and repression for the Cuban people, for whom Obama (and his lap-dog media) claimed he was acting as benefactor.
In brief, everything your humble servant predicted Fox News three years ago came to pass.. Not that the prediction required special clairvoyance or education. Practically all of those media-loathed deplorable right-wing Cuban exiles! (i.e. people with actual experience under Castroism) were predicting the same thing.
Accurate predictions regarding Cuba policy is not rocket science, amigos. Its simply a matter of rejecting practically EVERYTHING the Fake News Media has reported about the Castros since 1957..
You see, amigos: Back on December 3rd 2009, Alan Gross, a U.S. citizen distributing cell phones and computer equipment to Cubas Jewish community on contract for the U.S. Agency for International Development, prepared to board a plane homeward at Havanas International Airport. Hovering nearby, but unnoticed by Mr. Gross, were plainclothes officers of Castros KGB-trained secret-police.
As the boarding order loomed, these officers rushed up and grabbed Mr. Gross, who then languished in Castros dungeons until he was ransomed by Obama on Dec. 17th 2014, under the guise of a diplomatic opening.
This ransoming involved treachery on the part of the State Dept. that rivaled their treachery in the Benghazi scandal/tragedy. Recently your humble servant detailed this treachery right here at Townhall.
The U.S. ransom was almost unprecedentedly shameful in the annals of U.S. diplomacy. I say almost because it closely mimicked the whimpering Obamas ransom to the snickering Taliban for Bowe Berghal. Youll recall the Taliban got five of their terrorists back from Gitmo as the ransom.
But Castro came out of his blackmailing of Obama smelling even rosier than the Taliban. In fact, well before the Stalinist dictator got his spy/murderer back, Castro was already reaping enormous benefits from the Obama Team.
You see, amigos: Promptly upon entering office in 2009 Obama began frantically issuing executive orders to circumvent the (so-called) embargo of Cuba and open a financial lifeline from the U.S. (often on the taxpayers dime) to the Castro Family-Crime-Syndicate (grotesquely mislabeled as Cuba by the Fake News Media.)
Here I come to save the day! was a good motto for Obama and his team of whimpering Cuba policy Pajama Boys (Ben Rhodes, particularly)--because that U.S. economic lifeline came just as Venezuelas was drying up.
This vital economic lifeline consisted mostly of remittances by (so-called) Cuban refugees back to Cuba and of travel expenses by family visitors and people-to-people travelers from the U.S. to Cuba. The windfall turned into a huge racket for the Castro-Family-and-Military-Crony-Crime-Syndicate, who own most of Cubas tourism industry, Cubas banking system and so started reaping a windfall estimated at $4-5.2 billion annually from the U.S. Thats about what the Soviets would send annually at the height of their Cuba-sponsorship in the 1980s!
You see, amigos: Many recent Cuban refugees were hopping off the planes or boats and scampering straight to the State and Federal welfare offices to start filling out forms for their refugee benefits, which totaled about $1200 a month. Believe it or not, under Obama, the process of choosing these "refugee" U.S. visa applicants was outsourced to the Castro regime!
This means that Castro's snickering apparatchiks issue most of these visas to Cubans who don't qualify as political refugees by any stretch. Instead they qualify as Cubans who got to the U.S., sprinted off the planes to the nearest welfare office, promptly applied for their benefits (for which the regime even offered classes and tutoring!)--and promptly start sending remittances to their families back in Cuba!
Despite Deep State (especially Deep State Dept.) foot-dragging and outright sabotage, the Trump Team is aware of this racket and slowly working to fix it. The squeals of pain and outrage from Castros (unregistered) U.S. agents provide the best proof.
Whats good for General Motors is good for the U.S. went the old (misquote) of GM CEO Charles Wilson. Well, whatevers BAD in the eyes of the New York Times is GREAT for the U.S.. And the New York Times detests Trumps Cuba policy.
Interestingly, similar to Patty Hearst with her kidnappers, Castros kidnap victim Alan Gross seemed to develop (a type of) crush on his kidnappersthough on a different level than Hearsts.
Once free upon Obamas surrender to his kidnappers, Alan Gross quickly joined the ranks of Castros (unregistered) U.S. agents in calling for an end to the (so-called) Cuban embargo.
Oh, I know I know the liberal/libertarian mantra has it that the embargo is the Castro regimes best friend because it gives them an excuse blah blah blah. Despite this Ana Belen Montes, Carlos and Elsa Alvarez and Kendall and Gwendolyn Myers (all convicted Castroite spies in federal prison today) worked tirelessly to influence U.S. policy AGAINST the embargo while working as secret agents. Interesting no? If that doesnt close the case against the KGB/Castro-crafted and liberal/libertarian-parroted anti-embargo meme I dont know what does.
Alan Gross started chanting the Castro/KGB-crafted and liberal/libertarian-parroted critique of the (so-called) embargo perfectly on cue, almost upon his release..
More recently he has taken to bashing Trumps Cuba policy and even comparing Trump to Fidel Castro! Well, kidnap and Stockholm-syndrome victim Alan Gross was always an Obama backer. But heres a question:
Would a snickering Castro have tried his little kidnapping of a U.S. hostage stunt with Trump in the White House? Puh-LEEZE!!
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