Anyone who does not remember the butt plugging we took from Dear El Presidente, courtesy of his favorite dupe, Mr. Carter, needs to shut the hell up.
Mariel Boat lift, anyone??? 1980? Anyone?
For those of you who don't know or remember: In an effort to reunite some Cubans with their family members who'd left for the US years before, a mass exodus was concocted and executed.
It was with great joy that Mr. Castro and Mr. Carter made reality this fuzzy, warm, human love story.
Some 125,000 people were dumped in Miami, lived in tent cities for months and the creme de la creme of Castros sewers now had a nice, new country to live in.
Hardcore criminals, insane people, diseased folks. Maybe even a few decent people here and there? Hell of a way to conduct immigration policy.
Some cigar, that.
I'd agree that the current relationship is rather silly if we just ignore the facts that lead up to it.
How would you feel towards the US knowing that one of its favorite Presidents, JFK, tried to have you killed numerous times?
Bygones, no?
Castro is like any other despot. It is one thing to hold the reins of power tightly. It is another to deal with free people and all the problems it brings. He don't want no normalization.
Carter got used by Fidel and would take any opportunity to make better of it. "Well, no...he didn't call me the next morning, but he might have!"
Laughable to make more of it than that.