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To: combjelly who wrote (850170)	4/15/2015 8:53:03 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572956

CJ, And they are giving up quite a lot, especially if they have plans on actually building a bomb. What do you mean IF? Of course they have plans. Giving up a lot? You must think that most of their nuclear research is "peaceful" and cannot be applied toward weaponization. Same "logic" was used to defend Carter's ill-fated North Korea deal back in the early 90's. I see what happened then. It was never a workable deal, but hey, as long as you have the right-wing to blame, there's always a deal that is just "perfect" except for those damned Republicans. Tenchusatsu

To: combjelly who wrote (850170)	4/15/2015 9:19:04 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572956

Not to mention that Europe would REALLY like and Iranian alternative to Putin's oil and gas..

To: combjelly who wrote (850170)	4/16/2015 10:46:50 AM
From: jlallen	1 Recommendation Recommended By Bill Respond to of 1572956

April 16. 2015 12:04AM Cuba's dumb luck: Castros roll Obama like a cigar EDITORIAL If Fidel Castro can raise one hand above his head at this point in his life, he is probably still high-fiving his brother Raul over the Tuesday news that President Obama approved removing Cuba from the state sponsors of terrorism list. This is the most significant step in normalizing relations with Cuba, and Obama just handed it to the Castros apparently without getting a single thing in return. Not even a cigar. Countries on the terrorism list are deeply isolated. They essentially cannot do business with American financial institutions, which denies them access to capital and business from the world’s most economically important nation. Getting off the list is tremendously consequential. Cuba was put on the list in 1982 for supporting leftist guerrillas in Latin America. At the same time, the Reagan administration removed Iraq from the list, but for a strategic reason. The United States needed Iraq to counterbalance a rising Iran (which had taken American hostages only a few years before). What is Obama’s strategy? He is thawing relations with Cuba in the hope that it will come in from the cold, but he does not require the sorts of political, economic or human rights reforms that would prove Cuba is actually changing. It gets more money and regional influence but has to give up nothing. The State Department determined in 2013 that Cuba deserved to remain on the terror list because it was harboring Basque separatists from Spain. The Spanish government asked the United States just last month to demand the return of two Basque terrorists living in Cuba in exchange for removing it from the watch list. Cuba also harbors an American terrorist, former Black Liberation Army member Joanne Chesimard, who shot and killed a New Jersey state trooper in 1973. Her BLA comrades broke her out of jail in 1979 and she fled to Cuba, where Fidel Castro granted her political asylum. Obama is in the process of removing Cuba from the state sponsors of terrorism list even as it harbors terrorists, including an American it has labeled a political refugee, which is an official statement by the Cuban government that Chesimard is an innocent victim of political persecution by the United States government. Does Obama agree? If not, why not insist on bringing a woman who is on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists list to justice before making a deal? Cuba should not come off the terror list until it extradites all terrorists it is harboring, sends Chesimard back to the United States, and acknowledges publicly that she was a justly convicted criminal and never a victim of political persecution. Instead, there apparently will be no Cuban concessions, only American ones. This President’s approach to diplomacy is the approach of child who has a pocketful of candy and wants everyone to like him. The Castros finally got the dupe in the White House for whom they have waited half a century. - See more at: unionleader.com