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why not promote Freedom in Saudi Arabia our great close friend that does not allow women to drive or go out in Public without a male family member...go promote Freedom over there ...why is the Freedom promoting US always overthrowing freely elected Governments ...?Still having a hard time seeing the difference between Cuba and China.
If someone will explain away the hypocrisy, I'd be much obliged. Otherwise, we ought to treat Cuba like China.
China is not right next door to America
Chinas nukes are capable of reaching the west coast, but Cuba with Russian missiles can reach a fast area of America.
Gee, now you sound like those "liberals" you hate so much.
Situational ethics? Subjective morals?
A bit wishy washy in your reasoning and logic. You're beginning to sound as evil as the fuckwits I personally have little time for. Keep up that sort of blathering idiocy and I shall lose any respect I might have had for you.
Machiavelli would be proud, to be sure.
How about this. . . . .
Make friends with everyone, then you don't have to worry about them killing you?
And, on a more direct note, our relationship with China has nothing to do with nukes, and has everything to do with greed and economics. American political elites are hypocrites, plane and simple. It is all about power and money with them. There is nothing that Cuba has to offer that we want that is worth the insult that besmirched the pride of the American elite establishment when Cuba did what it did fifty years ago. Let any nation leave the umbrella of American hegemony, it needs to know it will suffer the same fate as Cuba. THAT is why Cuba was made to suffer by the elites, both on the left and the right.
And it worked. Did Kaddafi ever act so brazen? No. Did Saddam act so brazen? No. How about Chavez? Nope, they kidnapped him, staged a coop, and then finally assassinated him first, but never had as much trouble, because he always did have his oil on the market. The Cuban message was always loud and clear.
If you think that Russia would ever put any missiles there now? What are you, a teenager, twenty years old? Russia would have nothing to gain and everything to lose.
I'm 62.
I support the freedom of the Cuban people and this new relationship with them is not going to give them their freedom.
If Putin wants his oil money to go back up (or anything else they think they could use for political gain or leverage) he would do that threat in a heart beat, but would never really go through with it just like the last time it happened. It's about political games and power. It also would be in the future but not now.
He is pretty happy right now with his new spying ability, having it back again in Cuba. They will use that for a little bit for political leverage against us.
I do agree with you that it is about greed with our trading to China and the elites in both parties being hypocrites.
I am sorry but the US Government is not in charge of doling out Freedom...I wonder where folks get such outlandish notions....
I never said that it was.
Promoting freedom is not doling out freedom.
but when he said that he is not saying "our principles amount to a dictatorship" that is just noise going on in your head from anti Cuba brainwashing here in the US...the rest of the world sides with Cuba condemning US policy in October 2014 by a 188-2 vote at the UNRiiiiiight.you know nothing at all about Cuba ...you speak without a "data base"
I speak from Raul Castro's own words who says that Cuba is committed to it's principals which is keeping Cuba a Dictatorship.
His speech that he made to the people of Cuba was on C-Span and that is exactly what he said. "Cuba is committed to it's principals"
The government will still control them.
They will just have it a littler easier in being equal in their misery.
It isn't anti USA Cuban brainwashing. It's reading history in all of the governments who promote big government control over their people.
If the Senate passes this, you will see that the people of Cuba will still not have freedom.
but when he said that he is not saying "our principles amount to a dictatorship" that is just noise going on in your head from anti Cuba brainwashing here in the US...the rest of the world sides with Cuba condemning US policy in October 2014 by a 188-2 vote at the UNRiiiiiight.I speak from Raul Castro's own words who says that Cuba is committed to it's principals which is keeping Cuba a Dictatorship.
His speech that he made to the people of Cuba was on C-Span and that is exactly what he said. "Cuba is committed to it's principals"
The government will still control them.
They will just have it a littler easier in being equal in their misery.
It isn't anti USA Cuban brainwashing. It's reading history in all of the governments who promote big government control over their people.
If the Senate passes this, you will see that the people of Cuba will still not have freedom.
The people of Cuba have freedom...they are being Governed by other Cubans and the US should have no say whatsoever about Cuba ...worry about Ferguson Missouri and the Occupy Wall Street protesters who were brutalized....7000 arrested...
The Cuban Five?
"The softened relations come with a prisoner exchange. Cuba has released Alan Gross, a subcontractor for USAID—that’s the U.S. Agency for International Development. He was arrested in 2009, sentenced to 15 years for smuggling illegal technology into the country for opposition groups.
"Also released was a Cuban who had provided information about Cuban spy operations in the United States. Obama did not identify the prisoner by name, but Newsweek reports he’s Rolando Sarraff Trujillo, a former Cuban intelligence officer who who worked secretly for the CIA until he was arrested on espionage charges in 1995.
"Meanwhile, the United States freed the remaining members of the Cuban Five—Gerardo Hernández, Antonio Guerrero and Ramón Labañino. The men were arrested in the United States in 1998 and convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage. But Cuban intelligence officers say they were not spying on the United States, but rather trying to monitor violent right-wing Cuban exile groups responsible for attacks inside Cuba. President Obama outlined the exchange as the prisoners were already returning home."
Cut Loose the Shackles of the Past U.S. and Cuba Announce a New Dawn in Diplomatic Relations Democracy Now
I think it's a good move to reestablish relations with Cuba. The Cold War is over. We need to move on. Cuba is a nightmare for most of the people. I think that one thing we have learned over the course of the 20th century (and the beginning of the 21st) is that trying to starve a people into overthrowing their government does not work. All it does is make them angry at whomever in the international picture the people blame. And most often, that's us, because we're the ones leading the charge for economic sanctions. But ultimately, human beings are a highly adaptable species and can become accustomed to all kinds of undesirable conditions. The people become used to the poverty, they become resigned to it, and without any realistic and foreseeable way to change their plight they will double down on it. It's better to be very good at living in poverty, than to be very bad at it because you aren't willing to accept what's happening around you. If trade and commerce between the US and Cuba helps them revitalize their country, that will be far more effective at winning us favor.
I think it's a good move to reestablish relations with Cuba. The Cold War is over. We need to move on. Cuba is a nightmare for most of the people. I think that one thing we have learned over the course of the 20th century (and the beginning of the 21st) is that trying to starve a people into overthrowing their government does not work. All it does is make them angry at whomever in the international picture the people blame. And most often, that's us, because we're the ones leading the charge for economic sanctions. But ultimately, human beings are a highly adaptable species and can become accustomed to all kinds of undesirable conditions. The people become used to the poverty, they become resigned to it, and without any realistic and foreseeable way to change their plight they will double down on it. It's better to be very good at living in poverty, than to be very bad at it because you aren't willing to accept what's happening around you. If trade and commerce between the US and Cuba helps them revitalize their country, that will be far more effective at winning us favor.
Ask the East Germans how much better it is to have Capitalism, rather than being good at living in poverty.
Poverty is still poverty.
I went to Cuba and interacted with anyone I felt like interacting with. Included among the people I interacted with was the family of Rafael Del Pino who is the highest ranking Cuban defector. His family lives in Pinar Del Rio Cuba and I met and spoke with his mother and two brothers...but when he said that he is not saying "our principles amount to a dictatorship" that is just noise going on in your head from anti Cuba brainwashing here in the US...the rest of the world sides with Cuba condemning US policy in October 2014 by a 188-2 vote at the UNRiiiiiight.
His speech that he made to the people of Cuba was on C-Span and that is exactly what he said. "Cuba is committed to it's principals"
The government will still control them.
They will just have it a littler easier in being equal in their misery.
It isn't anti USA Cuban brainwashing. It's reading history in all of the governments who promote big government control over their people.
If the Senate passes this, you will see that the people of Cuba will still not have freedom.
The people of Cuba have freedom...they are being Governed by other Cubans and the US should have no say whatsoever about Cuba ...worry about Ferguson Missouri and the Occupy Wall Street protesters who were brutalized....7000 arrested...
They do?
Then why are they not able to interact with the tourists?
I don't worry about law breakers who get what they deserve. You break the law you get arrested.
You protest peacefully and don't harm other people's businesses or block their access to roads and bridges you don't get arrested.
The Cuban Five?
"The softened relations come with a prisoner exchange. Cuba has released Alan Gross, a subcontractor for USAID—that’s the U.S. Agency for International Development. He was arrested in 2009, sentenced to 15 years for smuggling illegal technology into the country for opposition groups.
"Also released was a Cuban who had provided information about Cuban spy operations in the United States. Obama did not identify the prisoner by name, but Newsweek reports he’s Rolando Sarraff Trujillo, a former Cuban intelligence officer who who worked secretly for the CIA until he was arrested on espionage charges in 1995.
"Meanwhile, the United States freed the remaining members of the Cuban Five—Gerardo Hernández, Antonio Guerrero and Ramón Labañino. The men were arrested in the United States in 1998 and convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage. But Cuban intelligence officers say they were not spying on the United States, but rather trying to monitor violent right-wing Cuban exile groups responsible for attacks inside Cuba. President Obama outlined the exchange as the prisoners were already returning home."
Cut Loose the Shackles of the Past U.S. and Cuba Announce a New Dawn in Diplomatic Relations Democracy Now
That would be nice if they got democracy but they won't.
The Cuban government is committed to being a Dictatorship.
Obama said "Unfortunately, our sanctions on Cuba have denied Cubans access to technology that has empowered individuals around the globe".
That is not true. The Cuban Government has made it illegal to have that technology.
Again you sound brainwashed and unaware...the Nation with the highest prison population in the world ...higher than Cuba ...higher than N Korea ........is the USAbut when he said that he is not saying "our principles amount to a dictatorship" that is just noise going on in your head from anti Cuba brainwashing here in the US...the rest of the world sides with Cuba condemning US policy in October 2014 by a 188-2 vote at the UNRiiiiiight.
His speech that he made to the people of Cuba was on C-Span and that is exactly what he said. "Cuba is committed to it's principals"
The government will still control them.
They will just have it a littler easier in being equal in their misery.
It isn't anti USA Cuban brainwashing. It's reading history in all of the governments who promote big government control over their people.
If the Senate passes this, you will see that the people of Cuba will still not have freedom.
The people of Cuba have freedom...they are being Governed by other Cubans and the US should have no say whatsoever about Cuba ...worry about Ferguson Missouri and the Occupy Wall Street protesters who were brutalized....7000 arrested...
They do?
Then why are they not able to interact with the tourists?
I don't worry about law breakers who get what they deserve. You break the law you get arrested.
You protest peacefully and don't harm other people's businesses or block their access to roads and bridges you don't get arrested.
The Cuban Five?
"The softened relations come with a prisoner exchange. Cuba has released Alan Gross, a subcontractor for USAID—that’s the U.S. Agency for International Development. He was arrested in 2009, sentenced to 15 years for smuggling illegal technology into the country for opposition groups.
"Also released was a Cuban who had provided information about Cuban spy operations in the United States. Obama did not identify the prisoner by name, but Newsweek reports he’s Rolando Sarraff Trujillo, a former Cuban intelligence officer who who worked secretly for the CIA until he was arrested on espionage charges in 1995.
"Meanwhile, the United States freed the remaining members of the Cuban Five—Gerardo Hernández, Antonio Guerrero and Ramón Labañino. The men were arrested in the United States in 1998 and convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage. But Cuban intelligence officers say they were not spying on the United States, but rather trying to monitor violent right-wing Cuban exile groups responsible for attacks inside Cuba. President Obama outlined the exchange as the prisoners were already returning home."
Cut Loose the Shackles of the Past U.S. and Cuba Announce a New Dawn in Diplomatic Relations Democracy Now
That would be nice if they got democracy but they won't.
The Cuban government is committed to being a Dictatorship.
Obama said "Unfortunately, our sanctions on Cuba have denied Cubans access to technology that has empowered individuals around the globe".
That is not true. The Cuban Government has made it illegal to have that technology.Again you sound brainwashed and unaware...the Nation with the highest prison population in the world ...higher than Cuba ...higher than N Korea ........is the USAbut when he said that he is not saying "our principles amount to a dictatorship" that is just noise going on in your head from anti Cuba brainwashing here in the US...the rest of the world sides with Cuba condemning US policy in October 2014 by a 188-2 vote at the UNHis speech that he made to the people of Cuba was on C-Span and that is exactly what he said. "Cuba is committed to it's principals"
The government will still control them.
They will just have it a littler easier in being equal in their misery.
It isn't anti USA Cuban brainwashing. It's reading history in all of the governments who promote big government control over their people.
If the Senate passes this, you will see that the people of Cuba will still not have freedom.
The people of Cuba have freedom...they are being Governed by other Cubans and the US should have no say whatsoever about Cuba ...worry about Ferguson Missouri and the Occupy Wall Street protesters who were brutalized....7000 arrested...
They do?
Then why are they not able to interact with the tourists?
I don't worry about law breakers who get what they deserve. You break the law you get arrested.
You protest peacefully and don't harm other people's businesses or block their access to roads and bridges you don't get arrested.
Ask the East Germans how much better it is to have Capitalism, rather than being good at living in poverty.
Poverty is still poverty.
The Cuban Five?
"The softened relations come with a prisoner exchange. Cuba has released Alan Gross, a subcontractor for USAID—that’s the U.S. Agency for International Development. He was arrested in 2009, sentenced to 15 years for smuggling illegal technology into the country for opposition groups.
"Also released was a Cuban who had provided information about Cuban spy operations in the United States. Obama did not identify the prisoner by name, but Newsweek reports he’s Rolando Sarraff Trujillo, a former Cuban intelligence officer who who worked secretly for the CIA until he was arrested on espionage charges in 1995.
"Meanwhile, the United States freed the remaining members of the Cuban Five—Gerardo Hernández, Antonio Guerrero and Ramón Labañino. The men were arrested in the United States in 1998 and convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage. But Cuban intelligence officers say they were not spying on the United States, but rather trying to monitor violent right-wing Cuban exile groups responsible for attacks inside Cuba. President Obama outlined the exchange as the prisoners were already returning home."
Cut Loose the Shackles of the Past U.S. and Cuba Announce a New Dawn in Diplomatic Relations Democracy Now
That would be nice if they got democracy but they won't.
The Cuban government is committed to being a Dictatorship.
Obama said "Unfortunately, our sanctions on Cuba have denied Cubans access to technology that has empowered individuals around the globe".
That is not true. The Cuban Government has made it illegal to have that technology.
The Cuban dictatorship is a dictatorship of the working people. Capitalism is a dictatorship of corporate elites. Cuba's system of government is based in communities where neighbors meet every 2 1/2 years to select delegates to popular councils and municipal assemblies. Electoral advertising is prohibited and all elected delegates can be recalled at any time. The Communist Party of Cuba is the ultimate authority, and it remains to be seen whether or not the US will stop trying for regime change in Havana. Democracy in Cuba will be determined by actions in DC and south Florida, in other words.That would be nice if they got democracy but they won't.
The Cuban government is committed to being a Dictatorship.
