Wanna Talk?
The U.S. has availed itself of a president who is personable to a degree. Believing fervently in the felicitousness of speaking civilly to one and all. Inclusive of boors and dangerous totalitarian government heads. It's rather a refreshing change. Kind of. Refreshing, one supposes, in the sense that anyone might be so completely committed to 'giving peace a chance'. Or gormless, or gullible. No, not gormless, Barack Obama is anything but.Enterprising, trusting, confident; there, that's more like it. And fact is, he may just manage to turn the international community's distrust of his country around. And he might think to start close to home, rather than flailing off in all directions, appealing to the humanity and decency of the theocratic and somewhat lunatic leaders in Iran. Try Cuba, for example.
America is no longer frantically in fear of the Communist threat. It's past time to meet and greet - in Cuba. Perhaps wean the Castros away from their misguided partnership with Hugo Chavez, and by extension, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Lift the embargo, give the country a life-line to prosperity; the Cuban people deserve it, if their leaders don't.
Fidel Castro claims himself to have been impressed with the recent meeting between himself and two Democratic lawmakers. "It was a magnificent(?) meeting" Mr. Castro enthused fulsomely. If the United States is to start anywhere, to turn around on its relationship with other countries of the world, to be less threatening, more open and accommodating, why not start with Cuba?
According to Democrat Barbara Lee, normalization of relations between the two countries would benefit the U.S. almost as much as it would Cuba. "...Cuba was ready to talk to the United States without preconditions", she said, coming out of her two-hour meeting with Fidel Castro. One assumes Raoul was somewhere present during those proceedings.
President Obama, after all, has suggested easing the flow of cash and people between Cuba and America. One can only imagine how enthusiastic the Cuban-American communities in Florida may be about this change in attitude; resentful and resisting, bitterly unwilling to recognize Castro's Cuba.
Labels: Particularities/Peculiarities, United States
posted by Pieface @ Thursday, April 09, 2009
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