Steven,
What a treat to find you here. I hoped when X mentioned you, that you would join us for a while with your sane views on life and politics outside the US.
The black -white, split thinking about which karen wrote yesterday was perfectly exemplified by the your pointing out the statement of "communism=bad, Capitalism= good" and how it colors our perception and acceptance of other countries' actions.
This was actually used in an argument bt someone who said that Elian might not be capable of explaining asylum, but knew "America=good, Cuba= bad".
Which ever life Elian is returned to, he will live far better than many children around the world. Better even than many here in America- better-educated, better fed, and better-loved. Elian the person, is no longer at the core of this argument; Elian the symbol, is.
SOmeone wrote this and I copied it but forgot to write the source down with it....
This argument is not really about a child. It is about our strange and irrational relationship with a small island country that clings to an ideology we don't like. So do a lot of countries, of course, but none are so close, so small, so immune to bullying, or so connected to a highly emotional expatriate community within our borders. |
