SeedyROM
01-30-2009, 08:15 PM
Bad idea considering Putin sailed the fleet to Havana and ChevezLand recently.
What Obama should do is practice what all politicians preach! We are always telling nations to continue friendly relations with neighboring nations. We tell enemy nations to open up and establish friendly dialog. But do we do it with out closest neighboring enemy nation.......nope, not in the last 50 years. Neither dems nor reps have ever cared to open dialog and establish relations leading towards estabishing trade with Cuba as well as medical sales, industry establishment and travel rights.
Maybe Obama can avoid a Bay of Pigs 2.0? It all depends on how Russia reacts to future troop movements towards Iran and even Pakistan. Better to make friends than sit back and let Vladimir do it first!!!:D
http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/castro_obama_guantanamo/2009/01/30/176715.html
Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro demanded on Thursday that President Barack Obama return the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo to Cuba without conditions, and he accused the new U.S. leader of supporting "Israeli genocide" against Palestinians.
Castro, who had recently praised Obama as "honest" and "noble", lashed out at his administration for stating that Washington will not return Guantanamo if it has any military use for the United States and without concessions in return.
"Maintaining a military base in Cuba against the will of the people violates the most elemental principles of international law," Castro wrote in a column posted on the government-run website www.cubadebate.cu.
What Obama should do is practice what all politicians preach! We are always telling nations to continue friendly relations with neighboring nations. We tell enemy nations to open up and establish friendly dialog. But do we do it with out closest neighboring enemy nation.......nope, not in the last 50 years. Neither dems nor reps have ever cared to open dialog and establish relations leading towards estabishing trade with Cuba as well as medical sales, industry establishment and travel rights.
Maybe Obama can avoid a Bay of Pigs 2.0? It all depends on how Russia reacts to future troop movements towards Iran and even Pakistan. Better to make friends than sit back and let Vladimir do it first!!!:D
http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/castro_obama_guantanamo/2009/01/30/176715.html
Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro demanded on Thursday that President Barack Obama return the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo to Cuba without conditions, and he accused the new U.S. leader of supporting "Israeli genocide" against Palestinians.
Castro, who had recently praised Obama as "honest" and "noble", lashed out at his administration for stating that Washington will not return Guantanamo if it has any military use for the United States and without concessions in return.
"Maintaining a military base in Cuba against the will of the people violates the most elemental principles of international law," Castro wrote in a column posted on the government-run website www.cubadebate.cu.