12/19/2014, 4:11 pm
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Obama Firsts -- For the first time in American history America has normalized relations with a man. The owners of Cuba, the Castro brothers, have been given the title "Cuba" by the Obama administration and the land, property, and people they seized two generations ago and reduced to their personal plantation has been given the status of a real country.
Opinions on this historic feat of autocratic magic on the part of Obama, the turning of a plantation and its ruthless owners into a legitimate state, pour in from around the world. The only place in the world where the opinion would actually count, in Cuba, the actual Cuban people, there cannot actually be an independent opinion nor even the means to voice an independent opinion on the subject. "Cuba" is not the word for Cuba. "Cuba" is a euphemism for a man, Raul Castro.
Cuba proper is at present nothing but a large tropical island with people on it that do not have a government that represents THEM. There is no country "Cuba" to normalize relations with.
Obama has achieved a first. Unfortunately for him, history will remember him for it.
Obama Firsts -- For the first time in American history America has normalized relations with a man. The owners of Cuba, the Castro brothers, have been given the title "Cuba" by the Obama administration and the land, property, and people they seized two generations ago and reduced to their personal plantation has been given the status of a real country.
Opinions on this historic feat of autocratic magic on the part of Obama, the turning of a plantation and its ruthless owners into a legitimate state, pour in from around the world. The only place in the world where the opinion would actually count, in Cuba, the actual Cuban people, there cannot actually be an independent opinion nor even the means to voice an independent opinion on the subject. "Cuba" is not the word for Cuba. "Cuba" is a euphemism for a man, Raul Castro.
Cuba proper is at present nothing but a large tropical island with people on it that do not have a government that represents THEM. There is no country "Cuba" to normalize relations with.
Obama has achieved a first. Unfortunately for him, history will remember him for it.