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Drivel and codswallop, the puling of the irrelevant.Rubio: Obama's New Cuba Policy 'Puts a Price on Every American Abroad'
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Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) says he's glad that American "hostage" Alan Gross has been released from a Cuban prison after five years, but he opposes the process by which his release was secured -- "because it puts a price on every American abroad." "Governments now know that if they can take an American hostage, they can get very significant concessions from the United States." As part of the deal to free Gross, the United States will release three Cuban spies: "They're not just benign Cuban spies," Rubio -- the son of Cuban exiles -- told Fox News on Wednesday. "These...
just suck it up you tosserPond scum don't like the TRUTH shown to them!
Rubio is not president..So what relevance is he?
Rubio is not president..So what relevance is he?
Neither is Obama ... or is he?
Rubio is Cuban. His parents escaped Cuba. That has some relevance.
just suck it up you tosserPond scum don't like the TRUTH shown to them!
No rational comeback... LOLOLOL!
You may wish to respond to drivel, that is the cross you bare as a mental midget So just suck it up plebianjust suck it up you tosserPond scum don't like the TRUTH shown to them!
No rational comeback... LOLOLOL!
Oh dear you have alzheimer's.Ip, could you please start another 3 or 4 threads about this topic.
Castro's speech to Cuba's National Assembly was a sharp counterpoint to the message U.S. President Barack Obama gave in his year-end news conference the day before. Obama reiterated that by engaging directly with the Cuban people, Americans are more likely to encourage reform in Cuba's one-party system and centrally planned economy. "We must not expect that in order for relations with the United States to improve, Cuba will abandon the ideas that it has struggled for," Castro said. Also appearing before parliament, shaking their fists in victory, were three convicted spies just released from long U.S. prison terms. The last imprisoned members of the "Cuban Five" spy ring were freed this week in a sweeping deal that included American contractor Alan Gross and a Cuban who had spied for the U.S., both released from their cells in Cuba as a first step toward the restoration of full diplomatic ties and a loosening of U.S. trade and travel restrictions.
While the 83-year-old Castro spoke in Havana, other Cubans of his generation were leading a protest in Miami against plans to normalize relations with the Castro government. About 200 people showed up, most of them older Cuban exiles. "The Cuban resistance will continue both on the island and in exile to do everything and continue the struggle until Cuba is truly free and democratic once again," said Sylvia Iriondo, an activist with Mothers Against Repression. Castro also expressed gratitude to Obama during his speech, calling it a "just decision" to release the men who spied on anti-Castro exile groups in South Florida in the 1990s and have long been regarded as heroes in Cuba. Seated behind the three and their families was Elian Gonzalez, the young Cuban rafter at the center of a bitter custody battle in 2000 between relatives in Miami and his father in Cuba.
The president closed with a shout of "Viva Fidel!" in reference to his older brother, who has not been seen nor heard from since the historic development was announced on Wednesday, provoking speculation about his health and whereabouts. The executive orders Obama announced Wednesday can clear the way for limited exports to Cuba and freer travel by specific categories of Americans such as academics and artists, but he acknowledged his need to work with Congress to end the decades-old embargo Cuba blames for the dire condition of its infrastructure and economy. Castro reminded Cubans that the embargo remains in place, particularly limits on international financial transactions that Cuba accuses of blocking its access to credit and international investment. "An important step has been taken, but the essential thing remains, the end of the economic, commercial and financial blockade against Cuba, which has grown in recent years particularly in terms of financial transactions," he said.
Castro confirmed he would attend the Summit of Americas in Panama in April, where he is expected to have further discussions with Obama. His address to the National Assembly follows surprise announcements by both presidents Wednesday that Cuba and the U.S. will reopen embassies and exchange ambassadors for the first time in more than 50 years. The agreement included the exchange of the three prisoners, convicted in 2001, for a Cuban who had been imprisoned on the island for nearly 20 years for spying on behalf of the CIA. Gross had been held in Cuba for five years for illegally importing restricted communications equipment. Two members of the Cuban Five, Fernando Gonzalez and Rene Gonzalez, already had been released by the U.S. As part of the exchange, Cuba also released 53 other prisoners. Late Friday, Cuban state television showed four of the Cuban Five celebrating their reunion by singing together during a private party in Havana.
Their release angered the protesters in Miami. Two women held up a sign saying "Obama's message to Castro: Imprison Americans and get 3 spies and an embassy." Most of the estimated 2 million Cubans living in the United States are in Florida. Thousands marched and more than 350 were arrested in 2000 after U.S. agents seized the young Gonzalez and returned him to Cuba to resolve an international custody dispute. When Fidel Castro ceded power to his brother in 2006, hundreds celebrated in the streets of Little Havana, and more recently, Cuban-born singer Gloria Estefan led tens of thousands in support of Havana's Ladies in White dissidents. By comparison, Wednesday's spontaneous protests and Saturday's planned demonstration in Miami's Jose Marti park were sparsely attended. "I think there are a lot of people sitting on the sidelines, tired," said Andy Gomez, a Cuba expert and retired University of Miami professor.
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"It is the latest manifestation of the failures of the Obama-Clinton-Kerry foreign policy. After six years we've seen a pattern now where our friends and allies, they no longer trust us, and our enemies, they no longer fear us. First it was Russia, then it's Iran, then it's Cuba. And consistently, what President Obama has endeavored to do is to show weakness and appeasement towards our enemies. "You know, right now, Cuba, an oppressive totalitarian dictatorship just 90 miles off our shore that is an avowed enemy of this country -- the Cuban regime was struggling and is dependent on Venezuela, which is hurting because of plummeting oil prices; and right when the regime is struggling, President Obama stepped in to throw an economic lifeline. And I think that presents a serious danger to our national security."
Cruz, whose father fled Cuba in the 1950s, said he objects not only to President Obama's appeasement, but also to the prisoner swap: "And indeed there is another component of this deal. Not only is it the sort of appeasement that we saw -- if you remember the beginning of Obama's presidency in 2009, one of the first things he did was cancel the anti-ballistic missile batteries that were scheduled to go into place in Poland and the Czech Republic. He did that in an effort to appease and Putin, and we've seen that appeasement didn't work as Putin has now invaded Ukraine, a sovereign nation. And the weaker the president appears, the more bellicose and aggressive Putin is.
"Likewise in Iran, this Iran deal being negotiated. Iran was struggling under sanctions. They were on the point of collapse, and Obama, just like he's doing with Cuba, stepped in with a lifeline, relaxed sanctions, and is in the process of trying to negotiate a very, very bad deal. "And here likewise with Cuba, not only is he throwing the oppressive dictators, the Castro brothers, a lifeline, but he's also doing something reminiscent of the Bowe Bergdahl deal where for Sergeant Bergdahl he released five senior Taliban terrorists. In this instance he's releasing three Cuban spies who were responsible for the murder of four American citizens for spying on U.S. military installations, including the southern command. And it's just dangerous and it's misguided."
Cruz said Obama doesn't understand that "weakness is provocative." "I'm reminded of something Reagan said about the far left. It's not what they don't know. It's that so much of what they know just isn't so. We all knew leftists in college that had posters of Che Guevara on the wall because he was such a sleek, good-looking leftist. Never mind that he was an oppressive, brutal murderer. They nonetheless glorified him. "And unfortunately, the foreign policy views of the Obama-Clinton-Kerry foreign policy is they do not understand the nature of our enemies, they do not understand that weakness is provocative. And the Castros are looking at the president demonstrate weakness to Putin, demonstrate weakness to Iran, and they're taking advantage of this to get an economic lifeline from the Obama administration."
Cruz Cuba Deal Latest Manifestation of Failed Obama-Clinton-Kerry Foreign Policy CNS News
Brilliant move just like the UK government did with the IRA, I do realize that some American scum supporters of Noraid still send money to dissident groups in the hope of reviving the carnage. I hope you are not one of those terrorist sympathizer ?Obama says he's going to normalize relations with ISIS next.
