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Grudge Match
July 29, 2005 ( politics )
Seriously, people!
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has announced the creation of a new post to help "accelerate the demise" of the Castro regime in Cuba.Caleb McCarry, a veteran Republican Party activist, was appointed as the Cuba transition co-ordinator.
--BBC
Hey! If we invade Cuba (it worked so well last time!), we can just throw "enemy combatants" straight into gitmo!
Honestly, tho. What do you think will happen when Casto dies/retires/is assassinated? A new and better, pro-US president will miraculously appear? Only if we inset our own dictator and falsify the elections. Which, I guess, is our standard practice for South America...
There are serious issues of poverty, trade imbalance, and political freedoms that the US has spent the past, what, 40 years now making worse through trade embargoes, and making it very difficult for Americans to travel to Cuba, even on aid missions?
And we're hoping to depose the leader that's kept Cuba together through all that, without offering a better, planned out solution?
Yeah. Great plan. Worked like a charm in Iraq. Nothing going wrong over there, for sure.
Sigh.
Posted by griffjon at July 29, 2005 10:05 AM
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