Raul Castro: US must return Guantanamo for normal relations
Jan 29, 2015 8:26:00 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2015 8:26:00 GMT -6
Well, golly.. I'm shocked. I never ever saw this coming! Nope. Couldn't have predicted it on a bet! (rolls eyes)
So nothing less than surrendering our position in Cuba will satisfy the little dictator, and then, we have to pay him on top of that for..whatever it is he figures he's owed for. Meanwhile..political prisoners stay in prison and they keep adding more to the total as they make perfectly nearly that absoloutely nothing will change in Cuba.
So..we're basically giving away the whole store and hoping..maybe...somehow..at the other end, someone will give us something for the effort? Now what brilliant policy that is. We can solve every crisis in the world we're a part of if we just give in 100% to whatever the other side is asking and walk away. Yup... That's the way to get total success ...if capitulation is success?
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A real masterpiece of diplomacy there. Yup..... It took Carter to hand away the Panama Canal as if it meant nothing more than a political pawn to toss to the side. It's taken Barack Obama to willingly give up anything like leverage for change in Cuba.
I believe its safe to say, I'm hoping for change. Indeed.
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — Cuban President Raul Castro demanded on Wednesday that the United States return the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, lift the half-century trade embargo on Cuba and compensate his country for damages before the two nations re-establish normal relations
So nothing less than surrendering our position in Cuba will satisfy the little dictator, and then, we have to pay him on top of that for..whatever it is he figures he's owed for. Meanwhile..political prisoners stay in prison and they keep adding more to the total as they make perfectly nearly that absoloutely nothing will change in Cuba.
So..we're basically giving away the whole store and hoping..maybe...somehow..at the other end, someone will give us something for the effort? Now what brilliant policy that is. We can solve every crisis in the world we're a part of if we just give in 100% to whatever the other side is asking and walk away. Yup... That's the way to get total success ...if capitulation is success?
Cuba has said it welcomes the measures but has no intention of changing its system. Without establishing specific conditions, Castro's government has increasingly linked the negotiations with the U.S. to a set of longstanding demands that include an end to U.S. support for Cuban dissidents and Cuba's removal from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism.
On Wednesday, Castro emphasized an even broader list of Cuban demands, saying that while diplomatic ties may be re-established, normal relations with the U.S. depend on a series of concessions that appear highly unlikely in the near future.
On Wednesday, Castro emphasized an even broader list of Cuban demands, saying that while diplomatic ties may be re-established, normal relations with the U.S. depend on a series of concessions that appear highly unlikely in the near future.
A real masterpiece of diplomacy there. Yup..... It took Carter to hand away the Panama Canal as if it meant nothing more than a political pawn to toss to the side. It's taken Barack Obama to willingly give up anything like leverage for change in Cuba.
I believe its safe to say, I'm hoping for change. Indeed.
