[Peace-discuss] Obama's move: fake left, drive right...

[C. G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss]

(You'd think after six years, we'd learn.)

There has been more than 50 years of US government terrorism against Cuba, mostly by Democratic presidents:

“In Cuba, after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961, President John F. Kennedy launched a murderous and destructive campaign to bring ‘the terrors of the earth’ to Cuba - the words of Kennedy's close associate, the historian Arthur Schlesinger, in his semiofficial biography of Robert Kennedy, who was assigned responsibility for the terrorist war. The atrocities against Cuba were severe. The plans were for the terrorism to culminate in an uprising in October 1962, which would lead to a U.S. invasion. By now, scholarship recognizes that this was one reason why Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev placed missiles in Cuba, initiating a crisis that came perilously close to nuclear war...”

Now, a half-century later, Obama proclaims his partial (and politic) relaxation of US pressure against Cuba - but at the same time he increases pari passu his unprincipled attacks on Venezuela and Russia:

<http://rt.com/usa/216143-obama-sanctions-russia-crimea/>

<http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/international/227648-one-step-forward-one-step-back-in-us-latin-america-policy>

“You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress” [Malcolm X]. But that’s what Tom Hayden does in the following (as the late Gore Vidal observed long ago, “Tom Hayden gives opportunism a bad name”; see inter alia Jon Wiener 1991, “Professors, Politics and Pop”):

<http://www.thenation.com/article/193273/why-us-cuba-deal-really-victory-cuban-revolution#>

“President Obama has kept his word, despite relentless skepticism from both the left and the mainstream media ... if the president has his wish, the Obama family will be seen on the streets of Havana before his term is up.”  

Meanwhile, Obama pere continues to kill children and jail peace activists, in pursuit of the constant US foreign policy:

<http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Wikileaks-Reveals-CIA-Admitted-Drone-Strikes-Ineffective--20141218-0043.html>

<http://vcnv.org/drones-and-discrimination-kick-the-habit>

--CGE