I still think Castro was behind the Kennedy assassination, the US govt knows it, and hell will freeze over before they give him any slack. It is the only logical explanation.
mipsman Here’s my take on conspircy theories–they can’t be contained. What I mean is, it is pretty inconceivable to me that a conspiracy involving multiple persons can be kept intact for a period of some 30+ years. This applies to all conspiracies involving multiple parties.
I would pose that the longest, currently running actual conspiracy, is “WHO IS DEEP THROAT?” All others are pretenders.
I thought Sam Giancanna killed Kennedy!
The CIA has tried to kill Castro many times. But he’s turned out to be quite wiley!
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Retired to where? Florida?
Likle all other great mysteries in life, this one was solved by Hollywood. Thanks to the magic of movies and that delightful comedy, Dick we now know that Deep throat was two teenagers. Betsy Jobs and Arlene Lorenzo.
The US also helped to wreck their agricultural economy. Among other things, they once bribed a Canadian researcher to introduce a flu strain into their pigs.
I don’t know which post was funnier, this one, or the one you made earlier about “rouge” states.
I think one reason the US won’t cut Cuba any slack is because Castro is the only Commie left from the Cold War. It’s personal. Once the Bearded One kicks the bucket, the US will deal with whomever takes his place even if his replacement is worse. They (the old-line Castro-haters) simply won’t do anything that even appears to be giving in to Castro, no matter how many Cuban citizens suffer. They hate him simply because he’s endured for so long.
We didn’t deal with China till after Chairman Mao dropped dead (even though his replacements were just as brutal, if not worse) and we didn’t attempt perestroika with the Soviets till after Kruschchev, Brezhnev and Andropov were gone. Once that warm, cuddly Gorbachev and his wife were in charge, American firms (McDonald’s, Pepsi, et al) couldn’t wait to do business with them and most Reagan-worshipping Republicans in Congress kept quiet.
What’s gonna happen is that Castro dies and then American firms will wait for a popular President to say it’s okay to sell blue jeans, Cokes and VCRs to the Cubans now. And I bet we start doing business with North Korea before long too.