Photo courtesy: Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters.
The photo above is innocent enough. It shows a young Cuban wearing a USA T-shirt, a common sight in Cuba after former U. S. President Obama tried so hard to normalize relations with Cuba. That process would still be ongoing except for the fact that another Republican administration, Trump's, has once again aligned the U. S. government with the unending 6-decades-old attempt by Miami-based remnants of the Batista-Mafia dictatorship to, at long last, recapture the nearby island. The benign photo above was used to illustrate a major and extremely dark, war-mongering article published yesterday by a leading USA warmonger determined, now that Obama has been replaced by the Donald Trump presidency, to help the elderly Bay-of-Pigs Batistianos regain control of Cuba before the last of them die of old age in Miami. In a bitter article Tuesday that originated from the Council on Foreign Relations, Elliott Abrams, a right-wing disciple from the Bush dynasty, promoted war with Cuba using this title: "Time to Tighten the Screws on Cuba?"
The aforementioned article was written this week -- April 2nd, 2018 -- by famed warmonger Elliott Abrams in which he laid out a case for U. S. Commander-in-Chief Donald Trump to recapture Cuba for the Batistianos. Now 70-years-old and still warmongering, Abrams is yet another product of Harvard University, Harvard Law School, and the extreme {not the beloved moderate} Jewish lobby. He represents a perhaps fatal weakness in the incomparable Democracy created by America's Founding Fathers. That flaw is this: Powerful thugs within the bowels of the U. S. democracy can influence even criminal government policies against foreign countries and easily cover it up via so-called CLASSIFIED -- or hidden -- information. Or, AS IN THE CASE Of ELLIOTT ABRAMS, ACTUALLY BE CONVICTED OF SUCH CRIMINAL ACTS AND THEN BE PARDONED BY A CONSPIRATORIAL REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT. After such a judicious pardon, of course, such reprieves, as in the case of Elliott Abrams, can create high-paid executives at lobbying "Think Tanks" in Washington.
And so, as an affront to Democracy, the pardoned Elliott Abrams, still a vicious warmonger, is today at age 70 a high-powered "Senior Fellow" at the high-powered "Council on Foreign Relations" propaganda Think Tank in Washington.
As in previous War-Mongering Republican administrations, war-mongerers like ELLIOTT ABRAMS come out of virtual anonymity when another Republican, this time Trump, occupies the White House in America's flawed two-party system. {I was a lifelong Republican until cured by the war-mongering antics of the Bush dynasty}. So, aligned with Trump, an Elliott Abrams can emerge from beneath the wood-work and openly revert back to his war-mongering DNA characteristics, fully using the power of his Think Tank as well as the acquiescence of the milquetoast U. S. media.
While he dis-honored America with his war-mongering during the Iran-Contra Scandal as well as well-documented Bush-related foreign operations in countries like Nicaragua and El Salvador, Elliott Abrams gets resurrected by the Trump presidency after first, of course, getting the prerequisite pardon from President George H. W. Bush who also issued many other pardons including one that made famed Cuban-American terrorist Orlando Bosch a lifetime heralded citizen of Miami. And so, with that backdrop, perhaps you can understand why Elliott Abrams this -- April 2nd, 2018 -- was openly making the case for the Trump administration to recapture Cuba -- YOU KNOW...FOR DEMOCRACY AND NOT JUST TO RETURN THE BATISTIANOS AND THE MAFIOSI TO THE NEARBY ISLAND.
Once as a young-adult my favorite conservative two-term President, Ronald Reagan allowed powerful Counter-Cuban Revolutionary elements high-up in his administration, like Vice President George H. W. Bush, to dictate America's vile Cuban policy even while the Reagan presidency was mired down with huge scandals such as the S & L thefts, the Iran-Contra Affair, and the scurrilous Stock Market Crash.
But I believe the George H. W. Bush anointing of future billionaire Jorge Mas Canosa, Miami's most vehement Cuban-American Counter-Revolutionary, as essentially America's Cuban dictator best defines why the U. S. Cuban policy got condemned 191-to-0 in the UN in 2016, the last year of the decent Obama presidency.
And then, one of President Trump's first acts in 2017 was to annoint Senator Marco Rubio, another vicious Miami Counter Revolutionary, as essentially America's new Cuban dictator. Many find this anointment interesting because, back during the Republican presidential race in 2016, presidential-candidate Trump had demeaned Rubio by repeatedly calling him "Little Marco." Now "Little Marco" is a Big Man dictating many of America's most hurtful and controversial Cuban policies.
This week as President Trump takes war-mongering Cuban advice from the Bush-pardoned war-mongering Elliott Abrams, the Bush-era war-mongering John Bolton is set to become next week, on April 9th, 2018, President Trump's top National Security Adviser. Bolton has long advocated the overthrow of Revolutionary Cuba, once claiming Cuba possessed Weapons of Mass Destruction as a pretext. The extreme Dangers of having a collection of well-known war-mongers like Bolton and Abrams as top advisers to President Trump should indeed scare Cubans but it should also scare Americans and many other citizens of the world.
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