The Millenium Summit -or- Pinko Whiners of the World, Unite!

In My Humble Opinion
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      • The front-page story in the paper today is the millenium summit. Only four nations were respresented in the article: the US, China, Russia and Cuba.
  • Clinton (representing the US) made a play for Israel/Palestine peace. I doubt he’ll see it, but he did make the point. Because elsewise he might have to send over US troops to crack some skulls, and he’d rather not do that (This week, anyway. Maybe he’s saving that for Al, unless another intern stops jawin’ and starts squawkin’).
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  • Chinese president Jiang Zemin called for “the world’s nations to commit themselves to living in peace and world harmony”. China is so broke people eat bugs for breakfast, and has long depended on its military to squash internal troubles. Apparently he knows they can’t afford to fight two wars at once, and doesn’t with to “waste” his military assets oppressing foreigners.
  • Russian president Vladmir Putin calls for banning the militarization of space. The Kursk let it be known loud and clear that the Russian military machine isn’t what it used to be, and there’s considerable doubt if it ever was, even then. Russia is already spending most of its military budget on supporting its nuclear arsenal and cannot afford to even begin research into space-based weapons.
  • Castro sounds like a twenty-dollar whore whose sugar daddy just lost all his cash at the track. He seems to think that the reason his country doesn’t have any money is because the US already took it all. -And of course, the US owes his country (and all other poor nations) because of it.
    • Interesting that the three foreign nations featured (which don’t permit capitalism) were all asking for money, more or less. Somebody remind me to plant a bomb at the next millenium summit. - MC
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I’ve long been of the opinion that the best thing we could do for Cuba is kick Castro’s butt out. That’d solve a lot of their problems.

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Of course, the best way to have overwhelmed Castro would have been to stop letting a bunch of disgruntled people in Miami dictate foreign policy for the whole U.S. Had we allowed trade with Cuba and stopped posturing as if it was actually a threat, we would have simply enabled his people to walk away from him. Cuba is not North Korea where Kim Il Sung can actually close the country off from the world. The U.S. (with the embargo and the sabre rattling) has been the strongest supporter of Castro’s control of the country.

Stupid ideas such as invasions and assasinations are much less effective than trade goods.

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And letting corporations overwhelm him is easier on the armed forces,as well. :slight_smile: bury him in trade goods! Make him dependent on us! That’d work just as well.

Either way…

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Yeah… I mean, look at what happened when Free Trade was introduced in the former USSR? (probably not the same situation, I know…)

The government is still just bitter that they can’t make money off of cheap labor in the sugar fields like they did under Batista.

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Don’t we have a surplus of 90 billion tons or so of Jar Jar Binks merchandise? Let’s dump all THAT on Cuba.