Dr. Eowyn:
When Obama announced on Dec. 17, 2014, after 18 months of secret negotiations, that the U.S. would re-establish diplomatic relations with Cuba, he did so without setting any preconditions for normalization, which should make the American people wonder about what exactly was Obama “negotiating.” Not only did the U.S. get nothing in return, except for the release of USAID contractor Alan Gross, now Cuba has drawn up a list of DEMANDS that include the closure of Gitmo.
Way to go, Obama!
That’s why I call him King Merde — the opposite of King Midas — because everything he touches turns into
Originally posted on Consortium of Defense Analysts:
83-year-old Raúl Castro, President of Cuba & brother of Fidel
From an editorial in Investor’s Business Daily, Jan. 29, 2015:
Soon after President Obama announced plans to normalize relations with Cuba, Sen. Marco Rubio called him the worst negotiator since Jimmy Carter. Cuban officials are now proving Rubio right.
As soon as Obama made his announcement, it became clear he’d pretty much given up the store and gotten nothing in return.
Cuba didn’t have to make any concessions on freedom of speech, democratic elections, a market economy. It didn’t have to turn over U.S. fugitives, including a convicted cop killer, whom it’s been protecting for years.
Indeed, as we noted in this space after Obama’s announcement, Raúl Castrowas soon bragging about how he’d struck a deal with Obama “without a single sacrifice of our principles.”
Castro apparently feels no need to do so in the future, either…
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