Grey Area
This thread is indeed about Cuba. US policy has been basically consistant from the first days of Castro’s dictatorship. When Castro dies the Cubans will become democrates in a matter of days and US policy will change. Not hard to understand.
As to supporting dictatorships, every major western power has supported dictators of one brand or another, at one time or another, for one reason or another. We all agree on that issue so why try and extend the issue elsewhere? (at least Chile is now democratic– not so Cuba).
Castro is a communist. He choose the wrong side during the cold war. He did his best to bring the cold war into the western hemisphere. I am quite content that he didn’t succeed.
Why are you so keen to pick a fight with U.S. members about Cuba? The U.S. regarded every communist regime as a target during the cold war and given the fact that communism is dead and billions are now better off, lets be happy. Lets be thankfull we don’t live in Cuba. We can go there on a holiday by choice. We get to exercise our choices everyday in ways Cubans do not.
Cubans who fled to the US are not fanatics
Snowman
Glad to see you agree about the namecalling. Referring to President Bush as a ‘Shrub (and worse) is quite common here. There have been many rather nonsensical rants on this forum but most have been directed at the US unfortunately. I do agree with most of your last post.
I notice that you reference the ”massive amount of goodwill’ toward the US after 9/11. You ask where did it go? Indeed I have heard this remark many times. It is a favourate comment of the idealists and the media types. Perhaps it went away because it was never all that massive in the first place? Perhaps it went away when it became clear that the U.S. wasn’t going to play the victim very long. In any event, rather than resign itself to living with the terrorism and treating 9/11 as as crime to be dealt with by the police, the U.S. elected to use the military. Perhaps that was the moment when the support waned because it illustrated U.S. millitary power could do what Europe can no longer do.
Regards
Sauron
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