WASHINGTON — High-level US diplomats have concluded that Cuba should no longer be designated a state sponsor of terrorism, raising the prospect that Secretary of State John F. Kerry could remove a major obstacle to restoring relations with the Cold War-era foe, government officials said.
Cuba no longer actively supports terrorist groups such as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known as the FARC, or former members of Spain’s Basque Fatherland and Liberty, also known as the ETA, according to State Department findings.
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Betcha Joe Kennedy has a hand in this so he can pay off that cancerous Chavez guy in Venezuela ... We all know that Joe would just love Chavez to run for office as an illegal alien in the U.S. so Joe could campaign for him, like he does on tv now. . . .
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Boat goat you are a doozie.
Apparently neither are North Korea and Iran as far as the Obama administrsation is concerned. North Korea tests a nuke again, Iran continues progress toward a nuke. Obama just wants to "negotiate" with them. The terrorist countries don't have a thing to worry about with Obama in office.
Remember the bit in the article about how it was George W Bush who took North Korea off the terrorist supporter list?
It is high time we have a sane policy towards Cuba. Hopefully, the agri states can put enough pressure on Obama to overcome the opposition from the Miami mafia.
Yeah and that stuff all started in 2008.
In my travels I've met with Canadians who go to Cuba all the time and love it. We can vacation in
Vietnam now where we lost 60,000 boys. I think the main holdup here is the Florida hispanics. As long as we have congressmen who fear doing the right thing because of various voting blocs we'll have situations like this.
What relationships with that bastion of world communism, Cuba? Oh wait I think Cuba is all by itself on that one. Yeah it would be nice if the US policy towards Cuba would catch up with the century we are in. It was always a stupid polity anyway that accomplished absolutely nothing. Besides, I could go for some Cuban cigars ar a reasonble price. Plus they ahve some great cars from the 50's still running I culd by or the parts I need for what I have.
did u mean that cancerous Venuzuelan guy that gives free oil to the needy and elderly? We have normal relations just about everyone we ever went to war with and although we never did go to war with cuba they are still the enemy
this article is pure propaganda. Cuba was never a threat to the US except in that it provided a model for fighting against the US's imperialist economic policies. The amerikan government attempted to invade Cuba, has repeatedly attempted to kill Cuban political leaders and has been trying to starve the Cuban people into submission through its economic sanctions. As to whether cuba is a repressive country, amerikan politicans don't seem to have any problems interacting with the saudi arabian government even though it is a crime to critize the so-called royal family. and where women are whipped for appearing in public without a male relative, not to mention beeing stoned to death for daring to have sex. And all this is not to mention that the greatest purveyor of terrorism in the world over the last 100 years is the US government.
I wonder why terrorism exists in the first place? Is it that the terrorist nation harbors serious grievances against another country? If so, then it behooves (love that word) both countries to sit down and try to resolve their differences such as is now happening between the U.S, and Cuba. Negotiations with a terrorist nation is not a sign of weakness but a sign of brilliant strategy for both sides.
As for our sanctions on Cuba, if both nations were willing to sit down and talk from the beginning, then fifty years of imposed misery on the Cuban people, would have been unnecessary. Meanwhile, we were getting along fine with Communist China while we were trampling on on our neighbor.
Whatever happened to the Monroe Doctrine?
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The Monroe Doctrine
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On December 2, 1823 President James Monroe stood before Congress and declared that the Western World belonged to the America's. Monroe, working closely with Great Britain, stated that any act of aggression by the European powers on a country in the Western Hemisphere would be viewed as an act of aggression against America itself and would elicit a military response by American forces. This declaration has been the center piece of American foreign policy ever since.
Mr. Monroe declared in his address: "We owe it, therefore, to candor and to the amicable relations existing between the United States and those powers to declare that we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety. With the existing colonies or dependencies of any European power we have not interfered and shall not interfere. But with the Governments who have declared their independence and maintained it, and whose independence we have, on great consideration and on just principles, acknowledged, we could not view any interposition for the purpose of oppressing them, or controlling in any other manner their destiny, by any European power in any other light than as the manifestation of an unfriendly disposition toward the United States."
Perhaps no other President has had such a lasting impact on the foreign affairs of our nation as Mr. Monroe did with one declaration. The Western Hemisphere belonged to the America's and he was going to make sure that became a reality. It is interesting to ponder how we take this declaration for granted in present day, but it was a giant leap forward for a young nation trying to assert itself to other world powers. Nearly every president since has referred to the Monroe Doctrine when they are speaking of matters of foreign policy and dealings with other nations, which places this President as one of the most memorable ones of our time.