"Should he stay or should he go?"
That's between the boy and the father, and due to the age of the boy the father, and the father alone, should decide.
"If the situation was reversed and the biological mother was in Cuba and the father drowned would he still be here?"
Heh, heh ... What would Hearst have to say on that, i wonder -g-
"Are the Cuban exiles in Miami that are protesting more concerned about the boy or are they playing anti Castro politics?"
Politics. Punto. Claro.
"And are certain Republicans notably Clinton hater Dan Burton playing politics by forcing the boy to testify before Congress and remain at least another month in the US?"
No cabe duda, amigo. You got it.
"Could it backfire on the Republicans?"
Ojala.
Random thoughts - Here's a chance for Clinton to score a brownie point on the wall of history that would compare with Tricky Dicky's table tennis inspiration - he could pick up the phone and ask Fidel for permission to land Air Force One at the first mutually convenient time, to have a meeting between the four of them - the kid, the father, Clinton, and Castro - and to leave the kid with the father while opening the choice of countries to the pair of them. This would leave Castro the opportunity to extract his head from Stalin's arse and grant the father the legal right to retain cubano citizenship if he chooses the States. What a coup for both of them. Maybe Fidel could throw in a gift of cigars to WJC, lol, while WJC could reciprocate with some '57 Chevvy parts. Then kiss and make up, and butt out of people's business, it's long past time to permit the individuals of both nations to make their own individual decisions.
What a fantastically stupid thing is the current state of Cuba-US relations.
My two countries straddle the US north and south, and they both imho have far superior policies toward dealing with Cuba. Not that Castro makes it easy, he doesn't, while an honourable man unlike the last sleazeball US puppet Batista he is stuck firmly in his own 1959 rhetoric, just like the whacko US right are in theirs.
The people on the ground are not near as polarised - i know a number of cubanos, most exiliados but a couple of current citizens too, we talk on political/economic questions quite casually. They have a wide variety of opinions and points of view, like individuals anywhere. Of course we talk in Canada and Mexico, with the benefit of a detached perspective. But none of them, in their most jingoistic moments, would approve the whacko followers of Mas Canosa keeping separate a boy from his father. |
