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To: marcos who wrote (80574)	3/8/2003 9:50:30 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Respond to of 281500

You might like this book: When the Elephants Dance "Papa explains the war like this: 'When the elephants dance, the chickens must be careful.'" The elephants in question are the Americans and the Japanese, fighting for possession of the Philippines. The chickens are, of course, the ordinary Filipinos amazon.com

To: marcos who wrote (80574)	3/8/2003 10:16:45 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Respond to of 281500

<Castro justification in his playing up of fear of the US > The reality is, Cuba has less real reason to fear the U.S. now, then at any time in the 20th Century. Our attention is elsewhere, our hands are full and then some, with ambitious projects. Castro has made himself small, very small and very quiet. No more armies in Africa. No more Che' in South America. Cuba didn't even make the top 3 AxisOfEvil. Cuba is probably down around #22, on the RegimeChange list, too far down to sweat about it. My guess is, Castro dies in his bed of old age eventually, and until then relations with the Hegemon remain frozen in a Cold War time-warp. Then, fairly quickly, we kiss and make up. As a gesture of reconciliation, we give back Guantanamo, and the Cubans make all the right noises about not irritating the U.S. any more. Alternately, Cuba could join the EU, the U.S. could threaten war if the Cubans don't buy our genetically-engineered Corndog exports, and the French-Russian AxisOfEvil could secretly send missiles to Cuba to irritate us.