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President Obama too quick to embrace Cuba
UWire
Issue date: 4/9/09 Section: Opinion
(U-WIRE) - President Barack Obama could be the embodiment of naiveté. In his diplomatic dealings with other countries, he has shown a complete lack of understanding in terms of dealing with both allied nations and opposition states, and he has been all-too-willing to flaunt tradition and good judgment in an effort to appear progressive and diplomatic.
In his previous foreign adventures, Obama certainly displayed artlessness when he gave Prime Minister Gordon Brown a set of DVDs and the Queen of England an iPod. He then uncritically swallowed Turkey's shameful lie that more than 1 million Armenians died in that nation as unavoidable casualties in a time of war, and not in a systematic ethnic genocide.
And now, making it clear that he represents all that we understand to be naiveté, Obama has credulously accepted the Cuban dictatorship as an honest diplomatic partner.
The New York Times reported Saturday that the Obama administration was preparing to abandon some of the long-standing restrictions on Cuba in "a possible warming of relations with the Castro government."
Then on Tuesday, the Associated Press reported that six members of the Congressional Black Caucus met with Cuban president Raul Castro for some four hours on Monday. Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., said that the president and the congressional delegation chatted "like old family members."
But where Obama sees a government he can work with and members of the Congressional Black Caucus see someone they can relate to like an old family member, history records a brutal communist dictatorship that murdered thousands of its own people, confiscated billions of dollars in private property and interned homosexuals and political prisoners in concentration camps.
Such a dictatorship that counts the governments of Russia, China and Venezuela as its close allies cannot be trusted, nor should its existence be dignified with U.S. diplomatic recognition.
Rush and his compatriots, who studiously avoided meeting with opposition leaders and spoke proudly of their cordial reception by one of the world's most brutal governments, do nothing to contribute to the eventual liberation of Cuba and instead aid and abet the rule of communist thugs.
In his previous foreign adventures, Obama certainly displayed artlessness when he gave Prime Minister Gordon Brown a set of DVDs and the Queen of England an iPod. He then uncritically swallowed Turkey's shameful lie that more than 1 million Armenians died in that nation as unavoidable casualties in a time of war, and not in a systematic ethnic genocide.
And now, making it clear that he represents all that we understand to be naiveté, Obama has credulously accepted the Cuban dictatorship as an honest diplomatic partner.
The New York Times reported Saturday that the Obama administration was preparing to abandon some of the long-standing restrictions on Cuba in "a possible warming of relations with the Castro government."
Then on Tuesday, the Associated Press reported that six members of the Congressional Black Caucus met with Cuban president Raul Castro for some four hours on Monday. Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., said that the president and the congressional delegation chatted "like old family members."
But where Obama sees a government he can work with and members of the Congressional Black Caucus see someone they can relate to like an old family member, history records a brutal communist dictatorship that murdered thousands of its own people, confiscated billions of dollars in private property and interned homosexuals and political prisoners in concentration camps.
Such a dictatorship that counts the governments of Russia, China and Venezuela as its close allies cannot be trusted, nor should its existence be dignified with U.S. diplomatic recognition.
Rush and his compatriots, who studiously avoided meeting with opposition leaders and spoke proudly of their cordial reception by one of the world's most brutal governments, do nothing to contribute to the eventual liberation of Cuba and instead aid and abet the rule of communist thugs.
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KEN ANDERSON
posted 4/09/09 @ 11:23 AM MST
LETS GET REAL! IT IS TIME TO START A RELATIONSHIP AGAIN AND JUST THINK WHAT A GREAT NEW PLACE FOR SPRING BREAK! OR AN EXCHANGE PROGRAM COLORADO SKIING FOR BEACHES! I HAVE BEEN WAITING SINCE 1959 TO LAY ON THE BEACH AND SMOKE THE CIGARS AND SIP THE RUM IN MY KHAKI SWIM SUIT TRYING TO GROW A CASTRO BEARD! DIRECT FLIGHTS FROM FORT COLLINS TO HAVANNA WHAT A MONEY MAKER THAT COULD BE!
Chunk
posted 4/09/09 @ 3:31 PM MST
This embargo has done nothing to change the rule of the Castros in Cuba, and has most likely been more detrimental than helpful to the lives of ordinary Cubans. (Continued…)
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