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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: marcos who wrote (103387)6/29/2003 11:05:26 AM
From: Hawkmoon  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
You know what enmienda Platt was really about? - it was about keeping niggers from running their own lives anywhere in the Big Stick area .... rather blatantly presented as such in US congress, too, you should read some of the speeches ... i forget where they are listed, but here is a piece that shows general attitude -

I wonder what kinds of racist remarks were written by previous Canadian leaders with regard to your own Inuit population??

As for the lease, so far as I'm concerned the contract is legal until renegotiated. If neither Castro, nor the US wish to renegotiate, then so be it..

After all, Castro isn't about to restore all the US and Cuban owned private property he "liberated" during his revolution in 1961..

It's amazing how folks want to digress to the specific when they can't justify their position regarding the general.. I could care less what leaders 100 years ago did or said.

What I care about is whether we all want to see political and economic liberalization in Cuba (and everywhere else). Do we want an economic and political system that is accountable to the desires and needs of the people being governed, or do we want a system that tells people what's good for them... A corrupt government of "do as I say, not as I do" where the political elite divert national resources for their own benefit while keeping their rivals economically and politically impotent..

Which do you prefer marcos?? And then instead of constantly reciting a list of past "wrongs", propose instead a list of future "rights"..

And then we have to ask how we achieve that...

Hawk
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