And no matter what kind of government follows Fidel, the exiles are almost certainly not going to get back any of the property he confiscated from them or their parents or grandparents.
HPL, meet John Bolton
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,52372,00.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/05/11/attack/printable508722.shtml
http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/americas/05/06/cuba.weapons/?related
http://www.etcetcetcetcetcetcetc
But under current political conditions, what practical use would Fidel have for bioweapons?
Stranger than fiction I know, but. . .
I suspect that Mr. Bolton says Castro’d give them to packs of terrorists, who are like wolves, btw, who’d use them if Team Bush is not returned to power.
IMHO, Mr. Bolton, like Mr. Wolfowitz, is one of those Mylroie type conspiracists. Except Mr. Wolfowitz actually is a Mylroie conspiracist.
Didn’t Mr. Bolton once record a cover of Carole King’s 'Standing in Te Rahn"?
Um… much as I’m getting sick to death of the “Bush is a poopyhead!” threads, they weren’t Bush-bashing. They were right.
Doesn’t change a thing. It’s an incredibly irresponsible comment. A head of state announcing such a thing (at the very least hinting at waging war on another country) just to gain some votes? This guy lost any common sense.
You don’t really think the people making fortunes out of the Iraq mess really live there, do you?
Cuba’s fertile soil for corporate greed. I assure you that there are plenty of CANF members just drooling at the prospect of getting their hooves back in. Hell, back in Batista’s day, there were already plenty of commuters between Cuba and Fla. Private jets only make it that much easier.
Hell, we both live in the DR, surely you’ve heard of **the Fanjul family**?
I call it the FIRST country that Bush invaded without clear provocation. What do you call it?
Look, if you are going to lump Afghanistan and Iraq in the same category, we’ll just have to agree to disagree. You may find a few who agree with you here, but not many.
Ah, back to the days when Cuba was a colony.
What a strange (and frightening) concept - a Cuba with an American-placed regime… wonder how many Cubans feel strongly enough about their state to stay and fight for it.
In the above mentioned thread where rjung made his prediction, and in which the OP said “somewhere in the Middle East” as potential targets for Bush, he was met with statements such as (this is just from the first of many pages):
The above was one of my favorites. Want to bet they want a mulligan on that one?
I’d be VERY hesitant about going down a similar path.
Bush calls himself a “war president,” doesn’t he? As to Cuba, his idiotic ruling restricting Cuban-Americans from visiting family in Cuba to one visit in three years has already cost him a fair amount of Cuban support—he’s gotta win that back one way or another.
The one bit of traction that I think this story has is that, militarily speaking, Cuba is a lot easier than any of the other countries suggested. It’s close to the United States so getting troops and supplies there is monkey simple. It’s pretty darn small. I don’t think that their troop strength is anywhere near even our current weakened level. It’s an island far away from where our enemies are so the only insurgents that we really have to worry about is the MMA (muslim merpeoples army).
Not that I think that this is anything more than pander so obvious that it’s insulting. I just wanted to point out that this is the best “next” country so far. I’ll give it an 8 out of 10.
Yeah, I know who the Fanjuls are.
Do you disagree with me that the Miami Cubans are better off with Fidel in power? What would they have to complain and nag about if the old dude keels over? Martirdom is a priced political commodity.
Doesn’t anyone remember the Cuban Missile Crisis? Or do they not teach that in school these days?
Part of the agreement with the USSR that ended the crisis was that the USA agreed not to take offensive military action against Cuba. So President Bush can say that Fidel sucks and that we hope he dies real soon, but dropping the 82nd Airborne on Havana is off the table.
[[The problem for Bush, should he get re-elected, is mainstream America doesn’t see Cuba as any sort of real threat ]]
And, from talking to a number of Cubans (the ones who still live there), it doesn’t seem to me that they see Fidel as a threat, either. In fact many of them love the hell out of him. If Bush goes after Cuba, he’ll have to answer to a lot of other countries in the region and elsewhere, too. That’d sure continue to build our popularity abroad.
I honestly know very little about this, but my question is:
Does the Russian Federation have much interest in enforcing an agreement signed between the US the Soviet Union forty years ago?
It’s just a tad more than a feeling, but I suspect that Moscu couldn’t care less about Cuba. They have other concerns at the moment, and the US has recently withdrawn from pacts far more important than Cuba and well, nothing happened.