Saturday, October 3, 2015

Raul Castro At U.N.: Drop Dead America

Diplomacy: After Obama showered Cuba with goodies, Raul Castro has repaid him with insults, demands and grievances broadcast through the UN. Seems the Castro brothers know a fool when they see one.
The White House has spent almost as much time touting its "success" at reestablishing normal relations with Cuba as it did on the actual negotiations themselves.
Cuba's President Raul Castro speaks during the 70th 
session of the United Nations General Assembly at the 
U.N. headquarters on Monday. AP
It used the occasion of Pope Francis' visit last week to spin the event as positive and compliment the pope for his bit part as a go-between, while just Monday, Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes breathily hailed 84-year-old Cuban dictator Raul Castro's first appearance at the UN podium as a signal "that we're in a new era."
If you guessed Rhodes was a creative writing major in college, you were right.
The reality is far more sober. Demanding nothing in return, the Obama administration has not only granted diplomatic relations to the Cuban dictatorship — one whose current leaders shot their way into power in 1959, looted and bankrupted their country, and held autocratic power for 56 years.
Along with ties, Obama has laid out a host of benefits for the regime as a sort of love offering. Yet the response from Cuba has been to dismiss all that as of little value.
Obama's actions, "have a very limited value, a very limited scope," Cuban foreign minister Bruno Rodriguez told CBS News at the UN Tuesday.
Among these nothingburgers disdained by Rodriguez are the ending of restrictions on cash transfers to the island, worth billions, a highly questionable end to the U.S. designations of Cuba as a state sponsor of terror and enabler of human trafficking, and the freeing of Cuban spies convicted of murdering three Americans and a legal resident over international waters in 1996.
Read the rest of this IBD editorial HERE.

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