08-21-2007, 06:13 PM
Barack Obama said today (8/21/07) that citizens of
the US with family members in Cuba should be able
to travel there to visit them. He also said that
without a "surge" in diplomatic talks with all the
players in the Middle East, the "surge" in troops
will not prove decisive in Iraq. To me, the whole
Cuba thing is from a bygone era. The communist/
democracy cold war is pretty much over. Fidel
Castro is a near dead has been, and his brother
seems ill suited for power. I think Obama is right:
we need to move relations with Cuba into the 21st
century. Also, I think he's right that it is going
to take a concentrated effort on the part of Iran,
Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Syria and others to keep the
sectarian violence in Iraq from becoming a boiling
cauldron of ever escalating civilian deaths. To me,
Obama is speaking sense, while "experience" keeps cycling
through the same old failed policies.
the US with family members in Cuba should be able
to travel there to visit them. He also said that
without a "surge" in diplomatic talks with all the
players in the Middle East, the "surge" in troops
will not prove decisive in Iraq. To me, the whole
Cuba thing is from a bygone era. The communist/
democracy cold war is pretty much over. Fidel
Castro is a near dead has been, and his brother
seems ill suited for power. I think Obama is right:
we need to move relations with Cuba into the 21st
century. Also, I think he's right that it is going
to take a concentrated effort on the part of Iran,
Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Syria and others to keep the
sectarian violence in Iraq from becoming a boiling
cauldron of ever escalating civilian deaths. To me,
Obama is speaking sense, while "experience" keeps cycling
through the same old failed policies.