We are going to normalize our diplomatic outreach with Cuba?
Its like President Obama is actually doing his job and being the Head of State or something but still everyone is up in arms because their pet causes got pissed on in the process.
At least Rush Limbaugh and Bill Clinton can finally smoke those Cuban cigars together legally.
Maybe soon we will embrace some of the other better qualities of Jeffersonian Leadership? It was the writer of the Declaration of Independence whom established a core principle of American Foreign Policy which guided us for over a hundred and fifty years, and which while limited, We The People are starting to embrace in the midst of endless Wars and nameless Enemies and landless States
“Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations
entangling alliances with none.”
~ Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States,
4th March, 1801, Inaugural Address.
You can read the full context of that quote here BTW.
WASHINGTON — President Obama on Wednesday ordered the restoration of full diplomatic relations with Cuba and the opening of an embassy in Havana for the first time in more than a half-century as he vowed to “cut loose the shackles of the past” and sweep aside one of the last vestiges of the Cold War.The surprise announcement came at the end of 18 months of secret talks that produced a prisoner swap negotiated with the help of Pope Francis and concluded by a telephone call between Mr. Obama and President Raúl Castro. The historic deal broke an enduring stalemate between two countries divided by just 90 miles of water but oceans of mistrust and hostility dating from the days of Theodore Roosevelt’s charge up San Juan Hill and the nuclear brinkmanship of the Cuban missile crisis.
“We will end an outdated approach that for decades has failed to advance our interests, and instead we will begin to normalize relations between our two countries,” Mr. Obama said in a nationally televised statement from the White House. The deal, he added, will “begin a new chapter among the nations of the Americas” and move beyond a “rigid policy that is rooted in events that took place before most of us were born.” .......
by Peter Baker THE NEW YORK TIMES, 17th December 2014
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I too am happy that the US is ending its embargo on the innocent people of Cuba and its accompanying bolstering of Castro II's dictatorship posturing as the island's defender against capitalist oppression. I don't know what Obama is up to, but for whatever reason he is doing it, I am glad.
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