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I'm looking forward to seeing MLB put an American League team in Havana; Cubans love baseball. It will create a big market for travel to Cuba to see our own teams play there, including spring training baseball when it's cold and snowy in the northern USA. I'd love to have Keith Olbermann and George Will do some play by play of the games there.....
You are getting way way way ahead of what the current reality is and what it's going to be going into the future.
IS there going to be another Cuban Boat Lift whee they send their prisoners to the USA?
Lol...never again.
Gotta admit though...Castro was brilliant with that one. It was a masterstroke.
We set ourselves up for that. We were BEGGING to get snookered. Basically, he removed a million lbs of pressure off of his regime, saved a ton of money and resources, and bought another 35 years of power.
And as Michael Medved pointed out, his lifetime includes Jimmy Carter. If you recognize that 'politics is the art of compromise,' then skill in negotiation is paramount for any politician. One of the things that made Ronald Reagan great was his skill as a negotiator. He learned the craft of negotiation as a union president. The primary function of any union official is to negotiate contracts. His secretary of state George Shultz, was also an experienced labor negotiator albeit on the other side of the table.
Charles Krauthammer in a recent column shows how Pres. Obama's negotiation skills are lacking. You can also see this demonstrated in Bob Woodward's book, The Price of Politics. Pres Obama has two go-to moves in negotiations. One is to stonewall, to insist on all or nothing. The other is to give away the store, as Krauthammer details. Both are major mistakes as any experienced negotiator knows.
I have visited Cuba. It's a typical Latin American thugogracy run by a Caudillo in uniform.
Yea you cannot accuse him of handing out phones. That's because hardly anybody there even has a telephone that works!
Get out of here.
You must be deaf; you didn't even hear that 747 going right over your head did you?
Cuba lacks all sorts of necessities much less luxuries; NOBODY fawned over Fidel for exactly that reason. Your post was stupid for that reason.
Now please explain those Americans who travelled there in droves, were they also fawning or simply seeking a cheap, warm vacation without crime. Oh yeah, almost forgot, many fawning Americans go there for affordable medical procedures.
There was a lot more to the release of the American prisoner this morning than met the eye. It is apparently part of a move on both sides to normalize US-Cuba relations including establishing embassies. It's about time.
We have not had any luck over the past 50 years, so maybe a different tactic is in order. The problem I have is that it's Obama doing this, and his policy decisions have proven to be skewed from what's best for our nation. I just do not trust his motivations or his agenda.
We have not had any luck over the past 50 years, so maybe a different tactic is in order. The problem I have is that it's Obama doing this, and his policy decisions have proven to be skewed from what's best for our nation. I just do not trust his motivations or his agenda.
Lol...let it go. Move on.
I mean, you want a different tactic...well you got one. It's called incrementally normalizing relations.
Has anyone thought what this might do on the political front with Putin and Russia?
Putin's popularity in Russia relies upon his assigning traditional U.S. hatred of communist countries to Obama. How's he going to spin this move?
Some Russians are bound to start questioning "why Cubans and not us" of their exalted leader.
Might be fun to be a foreigner sitting in a bar listening to Americans and Russians interacting....."your ma wears army boots....oh yeah, well she can drink more vodka than your old man." Perhaps segregation of both should be enforced by Cuban military. Haaaar!
U.S. military personnel from Guantanamo will maybe take leave in Havana??? There goes the neighbourhood...yipes! LOL
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