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Like Iran, secret diplomacy leads to US-Cuba thaw
Associated Press ^ | Dec 17, 2014 5:40 PM EST | Bradley Klapper and Matthew Lee

Posted on 12/17/2014 7:43:11 PM PST by Olog-hai

Fresh off his 2012 re-election victory, President Barack Obama summoned senior advisers to a series of meetings, asking them to “think big” about a second-term agenda, including the possibilities of new starts with long-standing U.S. foes such as Iran and Cuba. Two years later, after painstaking secret diplomacy on separate but surprisingly similar tracks, efforts with Tehran and Havana are in full swing.

The nuclear negotiations with Iran continue and are far from a guaranteed success. But Wednesday’s announcement that the U.S. and Cuba will normalize relations after more than 50 years of hostility suggests one of the last chapters of the Cold War may be closing.

The U.S. outreach to Cuba started cautiously in 2013 in the early months of Obama’s second term, predicated on the idea that no improvement was possible unless the communist government released American contractor Alan Gross, arrested and imprisoned in Cuba on espionage charges. …

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Music without instruments, as Frederick the Great once put it. But vacationing in Havana is paramount, right?
1 posted on 12/17/2014 7:43:11 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
He is indeed more "flexible" now, isn't he?

"Dia shábháil ar fad anseo!"
This is the Arabic character "nun" – the first letter of the word "Nazarene." I post it as my avatar in solidarity with people of all faiths suffering persecution at the hands of Islam. Many of them are members of the oldest of our Christian Communities, dating from the days of the Apostles. They endure cruel, merciless and unrelenting persecution. They are Orthodox and Catholic, Protestant and Evangelical, Coptic, Pentecostal, and Baptist. To the persecutors they, and we, are all "Nazarenes."

2 posted on 12/17/2014 7:44:32 PM PST by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in Battle!)
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To: Olog-hai

So ... does Cuba have centrifuges set up yet?


3 posted on 12/17/2014 7:44:34 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Democrats have a lynch mob mentality. They always have.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

If they have the weapons, they don’t need the centrifuges.


4 posted on 12/17/2014 7:47:51 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Next stop, North Korea?


5 posted on 12/17/2014 7:48:26 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Olog-hai

6 posted on 12/17/2014 8:04:01 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Olog-hai

This certainly is no longer the government of the people, by the people and for the people is it!


7 posted on 12/17/2014 8:32:52 PM PST by americanparatrooper (Remember your forth point of contact in a PLF and cover it)
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