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Politics : About that Cuban boy, Elian -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: marcos who wrote (4883)	5/11/2000 11:46:00 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 9127

The people were against the Contras. It should be the people of a given nation that decide how they want to live- that's my opinion anyway. It is hard enough to make decisions intranationally, but to make moral decisions affecting the government of people internationally strikes me as totally wrong. International human rights agreements are one thing. But aiding factions in bloody internecine conflicts is just stupid. There are places we SHOULD have intervened. Tibet is one of those places. FREE TIBET. No grey issues involved in that one. The Tibetans wanted to be free. We were too scared of China to help them. Shame on us and the rest of the world. There is a nation- a WHOLE nation- aggressed on. Talk about a lack of freedom. Cuba is poor. Cuba has problems. But it's people wanted the revolution. No one came and took over the country. The revolutionaries of Cuba were Cuban. The takeover in Tibet was Chinese. SO why don't we bitch a while about an excremental situation that REALLY stinks? But even with Tibet being so awful- I still wouldn't take away a child from a parent. I don't see the point in debasing people still further. Just because their own government may grant them limited rights is NOT justification to strip them of rights internationally. That seems to me, aside from being really bad precedent, to add insult to injury.