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Politics : About that Cuban boy, Elian
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To: WalleyB who wrote (1617)4/22/2000 4:32:00 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (3) of 9127
 
Wally, I've been wading through the posts, too, and I find far too much politics in the arguments and far too little principle. Too much about Cuban-American relations. Too much about Presidential politics.

Seems to me the issue is how nations handle disputes between competing relatives in different countries. Doesn't matter if the countries are Cuba and the USA or Slovakia and Madagascar. There are lots and lots of cases of kids who get caught up in these disputes every day. Who decides? What criteria are used? Cultural superiority cannot be a factor because no court is independent enough to decide that. And surely it's not a matter of popular respect for the leaders of the nations, in this case Castro vs. Clinton!

What would people want done if an American kid washed up in Cuba? What if the father were Canadian rather than Cuban? Does anyone remember the TV movie about the woman who kidnapped her child back from the father who had kidnapped her and taken her to the Middle East, Jordan or Syria, as I recall? Thank goodness that at least there wasn't a religious element to further complicate the Elian situation.

It's universally accepted that six year olds don't get to make legal decisions for themselves. This child sadly has only one parent and it is he who speaks for the child. Only if we stick to generally accepted principles can we hope to protect all the children.

Karen
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