To: Lane3 who wrote (7117 ) 6/8/2000 2:30:00 PM From: marcos Read Replies (2) | Respond to
Karen, i still don't consider the border in dispute ... whatever gave you the idea i did ... the nation has long since resigned itself to half of her territory being occupied, this is unlikely to change in the foreseeable future, for obvious reasons ... To point out that the native of the area feels the right of passage within it is simply to state a fact ... a fact which forms a parallel for the background to the more general topic of this thread, that of US relations with its neighbor Cuba.I think that your notion that people have some moral right to go wherever their perception of birthright leads them despite current national borders is wistful and charming. And utterly futile. "utterly futile ' an attempt to exercise those rights would be, and refrains from doing so ... "and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. " .... nolo contendere, it is futile for sure ... Prudence, indeed, will dictate ... but it is more than a notion;
