Hypocrites Who Assault Cuba

China Is TOO BIG to Assault!!

And So Is Vietnam!!
{Monday, December 11th, 2017}

      The Chairman of Ford Motor Company, Bill Ford, this week reemphasized the U. S. hypocrisy in its decades-old attempt to destroy little Cuba while being afraid of its two old war opponents -- China and Vietnam. Both of those Communists powers are Super Trade Partners of the United States. In the 1950s China's infusion of 500,000 troops turned the Korean War into a U. S. disaster while in the 1960s North Vietnam's victory in the long, bloody Vietnam War over massive U. S. forces fused all of Vietnam under Communist rule. So, in the fading days of 2017 China is on a path to replace the U. S. as the world's #1 economic power as it also begins to challenge America's military prowess -- with massive help from U. S. companies like Ford Motor Company. This week both the Detroit Free Press and USA Today published a major article written by Phoebe Wall Howard. The article is entitled: "Ford's Designs on China Include 50 New Vehicles." It said that "Ford plans to introduce 50 new vehicles in China by 2025." The article quoted the Ford Chairman, Bill Ford, who was in Shanghai, as saying: "China is not only the largest car market in the world, it's also at the heart of electric vehicle and SUV growth and the mobility movement." With friends like Bill Ford, Communist China is poised to overtake the U. S. as the world's economic...and maybe military...Superpower, the U. S. that picks on LITTLE Cuba.

      Last month -- November, 2017 -- U. S. President Donald Trump made sure to visit and suck up to Communist China's President Zi Jinping. Zi is now considered the most powerful Chinese leader since Mao, and far too powerful to be challenged by the United States of America! After the lovely handshake above, Trump told the media, "I like him and I believe he likes me a lot." Trump, of course, hopes that is so.

       Back in November, of course, President Trump sucked up to Communist Vietnam's President Tran Dai Quang. The three Trump predecessors -- Obama, Bush, and Clinton -- had done the same thing to the Vietnamese leaders. In other words, if you can't beat them, join them...and make them a major trading partner while also encouraging American tourists and businessmen to visit both China and Vietnam.

      American tourists visiting Vietnam today flock to a major attraction -- the immense network of connecting underground tunnels that enabled Communist North Vietnam to defeat first French and then American armies supporting non-Communist South Vietnam. After the French loss, some smart Washington politicians warned warmongers that, "To beat the North Vietnamese you would have to kill them all...men, women, and children." That warning, of course, simply went unheeded.

    The warmongers in Washington -- realizing their hubris could be concealed by easily classified U. S. documents -- believed they had something the defeated French didn't have, and that was an Air Force that could bomb any nation into submission. In the 1960s Americans on television watched B-52s -- just one part of the U. S. Air Force -- drop millions of tons of bombs on North Vietnam. Also, of course, deadly chemicals were dropped to defoliate forests so the bombers could better see who and what they were bombing. But the warmongers, like the French, had miscalculated...even when 500,000 U. S. soldiers were on the ground to take advantage of history's greatest air bombardments. There were two reasons the U. S. military was humiliated in Vietnam: {1} As the French had learned, the North Vietnamese were willing to fight to the last person; and {2} the amazing underground tunnels shielded enough of their soldiers and weapons to keep fighting until, finally, the American people got tired of the casualties. The Vietnam War officially ended in 1975. Since then, the world-famed city of Saigon has been known as Ho Chi Minh City. Meanwhile, one conclusion of the Washington warmongers proved correct: classifying...hiding...their warmongering worked and to this day very little of the stupidity and hubris, which American tax-dollars pay for, has been de-classified.

Vietnamese women were vital during the War.

     The stern-faced Vietnamese female soldier above captured a South Vietnam soldier. She also took his U.S.-supplied rifle, which gave her 2 rifles and a prisoner.

2 North Vietnamese female fighters.

2 Cuban female fighters -- Haydee & Celia.

Vietnamese female captured U. S. soldier.

Vietnamese girl captured U. S. pilot.

      Both the photos and the descriptions of the do-or-die Vietnamese female guerrilla fighters are authentic but not intended to demean American soldiers, many of whom were my friends or relatives. Few of them wanted to go to that war and many who returned home alive were maimed or emotionally harmed. One of history's most famed Americans, the boxing champ Muhammad Ali, in 1967 was sentenced to five years in prison for refusing to fight in the Vietnam War. His famous quotation depicted above explained his decision, which eventually was accepted by most Americans. Ali's given birth name in Louisville, Kentucky, was Cassius Clay.

      Both before and after his 1967 stance on the Vietnam War, Clay/Ali was the Heavyweight Champion of the World and his legacy today crowns him as one of America's all-time greatest and best-known icons. Of course, classified U. S. documents still attempt to assuage the culpable reputations of many government officials who sicced the Mafia on Cuba in 1952, spawning the Cuban Revolution, and who sicced those B-52s on Vietnam in the 1960s and 1970s. In the interim, Clay/Ali's quotation has stood the test of time, eclipsing the warmongers. 

     Both Cuba and Vietnam today feature strong female representation in their governments, derivatives of lessons learned from foreign-misogynistic wars. Above a Cuban female leader signs an agreement with a Vietnamese female leader.

     In November of 2017 Vietnam began sending tons of rice to Cuba to help the island recover from recent devastating hurricanes...as the U. S. embargo continues to try to starve Cubans on the island to appease a few hard-line Cubans in the United States.

Vietnamese rice bound free-of-charge to Cuba, Nov.-2017.

  Meanwhile in Washington, Senator Marco Rubio and President Donald Trump believe now is the time, once and for all, to destroy Revolutionary Cuba. Fidel Castro died a year ago at age 90; a drought destroyed vital tobacco and cotton crops; hurricanes in 2017 destroyed thousands of Cuban homes and other properties; export prices for nickel, a key Cuban mineral, dropped precipitously; and paying off past loans from European nations drastically reduced the island's available cash. All the while the U. S. embargo from 1962 till today easily registers as the longest and cruelest embargo ever imposed by a strong nation against a weak nation. Quite aware of such a debilitating perfect storm confronting Cuba, on Nov. 9th-2017 Rubio and Trump -- not so unlike hovering Buzzards observing a dying potential meal down below -- issued 180 additional enhancements to the Embargo, obviously designed to strangle Cuba with economic sanctions opposed by the rest of the brave, free-thinking world.

      And meanwhile, while the U. S. is afraid of BIG China and Vietnam, its claws still encircle LITTLE Cuba. All the while, American citizens are supposed to be too ignorant or too afraid to be ashamed of the image depicted above, an image that condemned the United States of America by a 191-to-ZERO vote among the nations in the United Nations, including America's best but very embarrassed international friends. And of course, the mainstream United States media is too intimidated or too politically correct to mention that the original purpose of the embargo in 1962 was created to, according to de-classified U. S. documents, starve, deprive and make miserable the lives of Cubans on the island to induce them to rise up and overthrow their revolutionary government. It hasn't happened because, apparently, too many Cubans on the island remember the brutal U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship. But...yes...since 1962 the embargo has been desperately trying to starve, deprive and make miserable the lives of Cubans on the island while, at the same time, serving the revenge, economic, and political motives of two generations of Cuban-American Counter Revolutionaries in Miami and in the U. S. Congress, like Marco Rubio.   

      Meanwhile, the updated photo above reveals the cowardice and hypocrisy that vividly contrasts an America that is afraid of BIG China & Vietnam with an America that pounds LITTLE Cuba to sate the revenge, economic, and political desires of a handful of Counter Revolutionaries, from Jorge Mas Canosa beginning in 1959 till Marco Rubio today. The young Vietnamese woman above, whose mother was probably a do-or-die guerrilla fighter against United States soldiers, is today a tourist guide in flourishing Communist Vietnam. As noted, prime tourist attractions today in Vietnam are the underground tunnels that saturated the nation and helped win the Vietnam War despite being the world's most-bombed country. The Vietnamese woman above, as a tourist guide, is showing American tourists one of those tunnels and explaining how they were camouflaged. While North Vietnam, as well as China in the Korean War, bloodied America in two historic wars, the very unified Communist Vietnam today as well as the forever united Communist China today are Super-beloved American trading partners. Meanwhile, from the 1950s till today LITTLE Cuba, which the U. S. is not afraid of, is still being unmercifully and shamefully targeted.

So...what is the difference?

      The startling triumph of Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution in 1959 chased the U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship to U. S. soil. First in Miami and then in Washington, thanks to the sycophancy of self-serving entities like the Bush dynasty, the Batistiano-Mafiosi leaders attained far more money and far more political power in the United States than they had ever amassed in Cuba. By the time the George H. W. Bush CIA-Vice Presidential-and-Presidential years ended, Cuban-American billionaires in Miami were the key backers of George W. Bush's two terms as President and Jeb Bush's two terms as Florida's governor...not to mention Jeb's 2016 presidential bid, etc. Now contrast all that with the fact that no overthrown Chinese or Vietnamese dictatorships ever resettled as governments-in-exile entities on U. S. soil. If you make those contrasts, I believe you will understand why today Communist China and Communist Vietnam are major United States trading partners while the United States -- SINCE 1959 -- has tried to either recapture Cuba or starve it to death.

      But despite the weird handshake above, Revolutionary Cuba has  -- after all these decades -- neither  been recaptured nor starved to death. That is truly an amazing fact, considering that two generations of the most vicious Counter Revolutionary Cubans, now epitomized by Marco Rubio, have had the backing of the Superpower U. S. government and the apathy of the propagandized U. S. citizens in their eternal quest to regain control of the pugnacious Caribbean island. In December of 2017, the question becomes: Will the four-handed handshake depicted above between Senator Rubio and President Trump FINALLY spell doom for LITTLE Revolutionary Cuba???

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The U.S.-Cuban Boomerang

Aiming at Cuba and Then Ducking!!
{Saturday, December 9, 2017}

     In America's world of science, the boyish- looking Dr. Alex Berezow is actually a very BIG man. He got his Ph.D in microbiology from the University of Washington. He is the Founding Editor of RealClearScience and the Assistant Editor of RealClearWorld. In May of 2016 he joined the American Council on Science and Health. A journalist and author, Dr. Alex Berezow, in addition to his books, has contributed major articles to media giants like The Wall Street Journal and BBC News, and he is a highly paid contributor to America's largest newspaper, USA Today. He also hates Revolutionary Cuba about as much as Marco Rubio.

    In a major article published by his various outlets on Dec. 6-2017, Dr. Alex Berezow seemed to make the case that the Superpower U. S. should go ahead and just destroy Revolutionary Cuba and then remake the Caribbean island in America's 1950s image, meaning a return of the Batistiano remnants now firmly ingrained in Miami, in the U. S. Congress, and in the Trump White House. The article by Dr. Berezow is entitled: "Sonic Attack: Cuba Plays US for Fools." His widely published one-sided appraisal of the mysterious "sonic attacks" against United States personnel attached to its embassy in Havana could have been written, it appears, by vicious U. S. Counter Revolutionaries like Rubio who sense that Cuba's current economic woes provide a perfect scenario for renewed attacks. Dr. Berezow summed up his anti-Cuban rage this way:
                    "Yesterday, a panel of Cuban scientists declared that  there was no sonic attack; instead, they blamed stress and mass hysteria. The fact that the Cubans would issue such an insultingly stupid report means that they aren't taking America's concerns seriously. That also means that the Trump administration was completely justified in its decisions to downsize the U. S. embassy in Cuba and to expel some Cuban diplomats."

      Of course, Dr. Alex Berezow's slanted views on the "sonic wave mystery" doesn't address the fact that, so far, the winners are the Counter Revolutionary extremists in the U. S. and the losers are the Cuban people suffering anew from the vast array of new sanctions from the Trump administration based on the excuse created by the still unsolved sonic mystery. Dr. Alex Berezow's conclusion was this: "The Obama rapprochement is off. Cuba's failure to cooperate is a shame. The U. S. isn't even holding them responsible for the attack. If there really was a sonic weapon, the most likely culprit is Russia. Maybe the Cubans will care if one of their own is the next victim." Wow!! This guy is America's scientific genius at the forefront of rendering an unbiased assessment of a mystery that the Trump-Rubio team is using as a trigger to justify shooting fresh bullets at Cuba? Are there any real scientific geniuses? If so, just where are they hiding?  

        Meanwhile, on the island itself Cubans are forced to navigate in minefields unique only to them. Bright, young, well-educated, innovative, and creative young Cubans -- like Idalia del Rio -- have more obstacles than most success stories but Idalia is symptomatic of why Revolutionary Cuba, against imposing odds, is still standing. In an insightful article written by Tyler Wetherall, even the London-based The Guardian seems awed by Idalia's accomplishments. The article is entitled: "Meet the Fashion Brand Bringing Cuban Design to the World." The sub-title says: "One Innovative Designer Has Found a Way Around Both the Regime and the U. S. Embargo and Become the First Cuban Clothing Company to Shop Anywhere in the World."

       Idalia del Rio was actually in Mexico, circumventing Cuban and USA obstacles, trying to replenish her color ink supply when The Guardian's Tyler Wetherall finished talking to her. The outfit worn above is one of Idalia's designs and on her popular website -- Clandestina.co -- she sells a vast array of her creations and productions.

      The Cuban Supermodel Karina Valero models some of Idalia del Rio's most dazzling, best-selling fashions on her Clandestina.co website. How Idalia created a company in Havana that sells her designs around the world is told by The Guardian, the London-based media giant that covers Cuba fairly. So, the article chronicling how Idalia del Rio expanded her fashion brand internationally is worth reading.

      This apartment building in Matanzas, adorned by the huge Cuban flag, doesn't conceal the problems and the unknowns of the two Cuban men looking down from the balcony. Of course, they deserve less problems and less wondering about what both Cuba and the USA have in store for them. Cuba, you see, has been a sovereign nation since 1959 -- ALMOST. Independence with U. S. entanglements is actually neither sovereign nor independent. The two men in the balcony know that is true. 

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Cuba Adjusting to Trump

Confusion Plus Unknowns!
{Thursday, December 7th, 2017}

      The Reuters and Voice of America news agencies yesterday used the above Reuters photo of two tourists to illustrate an article entitled: "China's Exports to Cuba Slump as Island's Cash Crunch Deepens." That's good news for Marco Rubio and the Counter Revolutionaries in the U. S. trying to strangle Cuba once-and-for-all, but bad news for Cubans on the island. The article pointed out that Cuba is being hit by the perfect storm -- the U. S. transition from Obama-to-Trump; Venezuela's drastic economic troubles; a prolonged drought; devastating hurricanes; etc. Chinese exports to Cuba, the article reported, "slumped 29.8 percent down to $1 billion from January through October this year. Cuba's trade in goods last year was $12.6 billion, compared with $15 billion in 2015, but more than 80 percent is in imports, not in exports."

      The Desmond Boylan/Associated Press photo above was used in various reports yesterday and today to update the mysterious sonic attacks against U. S. embassy workers in Havana that are being used by Rubio and the Counter Revolutionaries as the latest excuse to attack the island with a new barrage of economic sanctions. The Washington Post's update concluded, "What exactly happened to two dozen Americans in Cuba remains a mystery to Cuba, science, and FBI investigators."

     The AP reported yesterday that the mysterious acoustical assaults...or whatever it was...on 24 Americans "has caused anomalies in white brain tissue" according to the U. S. but the report also stated that "most of the victims have fully recovered." That latter revelation is also a mystery, I reckon. Meanwhile, Cuba is being punished by gleeful Rubio-led anti-Cuban extremists in Washington with Trump-mandated new sanctions that continue to reverse former President Obama's decent Cuban policies.

      Interspersed among the newly punitive 180 measures the Trump administration issued on Nov. 9-2017 against Cuba are United States business interests trying to sneak into the crevices as Cuba itself adjusts to America's post-Obama Cuban policies. The Royal Caribbean Cruise Line is adding its 2,350-passenger Majesty of the Seas to its regular sailings to Cuba. The magnificent ship will begin sailing to Cuba from Tampa in April. The Royal Caribbean's 1,160-passenger Empress of the Seas is already sailing to Cuba from Miami. Royal Caribbean, in addition to Havana, is adding the Cuban ports of Cienfuegos and Santiago de Cuba to its itinerary. Later this month Holland America will become the 6th cruise line to have Cuban cruises.

     The new wave of extremely punitive Trump measures against Cuba announced on Nov. 9-2017 were orchestrated by Miami's Counter Revolutionaries in Congress led by Senator Marco Rubio, which is well-known in Washington. But significantly, Rubio complained loudly about a liberal contingent that prevented his assaults from being even MUCH MORE punitive. So Rubio apparently is unhappy with Florida ports -- Tampa, Miami & Fort Lauderdale  -- engaging in Cuban commerce.

      It appears that Trump's latest assault on Cuba is the selection of Philip Goldberg as the Top Man at the U. S. Embassy in Havana. In his last two ambassadorial assignments -- in Bolivia and the Philippines -- Goldberg has feasted on spats and entanglements. Apparently, Goldberg's antipathy towards Cuba and his combativeness earned him his new assignment in Havana...for what it's worth. After President Obama reopened the U. S. Embassy in Havana for the first time since 1961, the Trump presidency has sufficiently gutted it and the Cuban embassy in Washington. So an antagonistic charge d'affaires -- or Top Man -- like Goldberg in Havana will likely add to the bickering and hostility at the U. S. embassy in Havana.

      Of course, Jeffrey DeLaurentis was President Obama's Top Man at the real U. S. embassy in Havana. DeLaurentis was also Obama's choice to be the U. S. Ambassador to Cuba but just one man in Congress, Senator Rubio, blocked the DeLaurentis appointment from even coming before the Senate for a vote.

      As far as is known, every unbiased source in Washington believed the highly respected Jeffrey DeLaurentis was the perfect person to be the United States Ambassador to Cuba. But when a mere handful of self-serving, revengeful Counter Revolutionaries like Rubio can made America's decisions regarding Cuba, everyone else -- including Cubans, Americans, and Cuban-Americans -- suffer. So, as the Obama-to-Trump transition closes out the first week of December-2017, America does not have a decent and extremely capable man, Jeffrey DeLaurentis, as its badly needed Ambassador to Cuba. Instead, the United States has a volatile anti-Cuban Top Man, Philip Goldberg, at a Rubio-gutted and totally dysfunctional U. S. embassy building in Havana. From Obama-to-Trump and from DeLaurentis-to-Goldberg is what the American people are left with...and probably deserve for not caring enough about their democracy to let it descend into a disastrous Trump-Rubio-Goldberg morass.

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Rubio: USA's Cuban Dictator?

A Cruel Trump Anointment!!
{Wednesday, December 6th, 2017}

      The map & graphic depicted above reveals why, I believe, Americans have displayed little respect for their democracy since the 1950s...as revealed by not objecting to a few rogues in the Eisenhower administration supporting Mafia thugs Fulgencio Batista, Lucky Luciano, and Meyer Lansky as the brutal-thieving dictators of Cuba, a situation that also allowed rich Americans to partake in the rape and robbery of the island. When the Cuban Revolution on Jan. 1-1959 overthrew the U.S-backed Batista-Luciano-Lansky dictatorship in Cuba, it merely fled and resurfaced in nearby South Florida where the Batistiano-Mafisoi leaders were far richer than anyone else and thus able to take over that portion of U. S. soil politically. Then with massive support of self-serving U. S. operatives, such as the Bush dynasty, by the 1980s the Bush-anointed Counter-Revolutionary Jorge Mas Canosa became essentially America's Cuban dictator, amassing unlimited power in Miami first and then in Washington. And now in 2017 President Trump has essentially anointed Miami's contribution to the U. S. Senate, Marco Rubio, as America's new Cuban dictator, albeit one operating out of Washington and Miami but not in Havana. Americans, disrespecting their country, didn't object to the U. S. aligning with Batista-Luciano-Lansky in sacking Cuba also didn't object to the Bush-anointment of Canosa or the current Trump-anointment of Rubio as America's Cuban dictators. Yet, Revolutionary Cuba has pugnaciously objected to such things for over six decades and even today America's greatest democracy-lovers and America's greatest business leaders strenuously object to yet another American Cuban dictator, Marco Rubio.

           With that being said, I'll get back to explaining the map & graphic depicted above. Buoyed by the decency of former President Obama, Carnival Cruise Lines jumped at the chance to do business with Cuba that, prior to Obama, had been off-limits because of the U. S. embargo imposed in 1962 to starve, deprive, and make miserable the lives of Cubans on the island to induce them to rise up and overthrow their revolutionary government, a fact revealed by de-classified U. S. documents from 1962. So Carnival, thanks to Obama, gleefully touted the map & graphic above that hopes its cruise line is able to operate from the Port of Miami to three Ports in Cuba -- Havana, Cienfuegos, and Santiago de Cuba. In other words, Obama -- as President of the United States -- had proven to be the only U. S. president with the guts to challenge the likes of Rubio, who had to abide his Cuban cruelty till Obama left office on January 20th of 2017.

   Like former President Obama, Arnold Donald is a Democracy-loving American who believes Americans should not be the only people in the world without the freedom to travel to Cuba and Arnold Donald believes that Rubio, anointed by President Trump, should not be permitted to starve, deprive, and make miserable the lives of everyday Cubans in order to perpetuate the revenge, economic, and political goals of Rubio and his Miami cohorts. He is the President & CEO of Carnival Cruise Lines, the largest cruise line in the entire world. It was Mr. Arnold who drew up the map-graphic at the top of this update.

       Back when democracy-loving President Obama was in office, Arnold Donald is shown above signing a business deal with Cuba on behalf of his Carnival Cruise Line, the world's biggest cruise line. But Obama has been replaced by Donald Trump and thus America has a new Cuban dictator, Rubio.

     As the dynamo in charge of Carnival Cruise Lines, Arnold Donald is one of thousands of democracy-loving U. S. business executives trying to challenge Rubio's dictatorship of America's Cuban policy, a policy condemned by a vote of 191-to-ZERO in the United Nations. "Punishing America to punish Cuba makes no sense," says Arnold Donald. And, of course, it has made "no sense" for decades. But Batista-Luciano-Lansky had enough rogues in Washington to support them in the 1950s; Canosa had enough Bushes to support him in the 1980s and 90s; and Rubio in 2017 has President Trump and enough bought-and-paid-for miscreants in the U. S. Congress to support him. That leaves great democracy-lovers, even like the very powerful Arnold Donald, out in the cold. And, sadly, in America's money-crazed/two-party system, waiting for another President Obama to emerge is probably a bridge-too-far for the U. S. democracy.

      One of the great American lies dictated for decades by a few Counter Revolutionary extremists in Miami, and perpetuated by an incompetent or intimidated or politically correct mainstream media, is that  most Cuban-Americans favor the cruel, hard-line approach to Cuba. The truth is...most Cuban-Americans even in Miami favor Obama's decent efforts to normalize relations with Cuba. You cannot get anymore Cuban-American in Miami than Frank Del Rio. He is the powerful head of the Miami-based Norwegian Cruise Line and Frank wants normal U.S. and Cuban relations.

     And like President Obama, Frank Del Rio wants Cuban-American businesses even based in Miami to have the freedom to do business with Cuba and for all Americans to have the freedom to visit Cuba if that is their desire, just as all non-Americans can.

      When Obama was America's decent and brave President even while Rubio and 3 other Miami members of Congress were trying to dictate Cuban policy ALL BY THEMSELVES, Frank Del Rio's Miami-based Norwegian Cruise Line, as shown above, got approval to cruise to Cuba. But Obama was replaced by Trump on Jan. 20-2017 and that evolved into Rubio's anointment as America's new Cuban dictator, something democracy-loving Cuban-Americans like Frank Del Rio don't support.

     Another prominent Miami Cuban-American businessman is Hugo Cancio. He says Miami has "a little problem with democracy." NO KIDDING, Hugo!! What he  means is this: He believes he is among the majority 2 million moderate Cuban-Americans in South Florida but he wonders when, if ever, Miami or South Florida will elect a moderate Cuban-American from the majority to represent people like him in Congress. And my point is this: If a Cuban-American in the majority like Hugo Cancio in Miami feels that way, why in the hell don't more Americans have democratic Cuban thoughts like...Barack Obama, Arnold Donald, Frank Del Rio, and Hugo.

In other words:

Supporting these 3 guys...

in Cuba in the 1950s...

was not right.

Obama Landing in Cuba.

Obama is loved in Cuba.

Obama is hated by fiery Rubio.

Counter-revolutionaries Canosa-Reagan.

Counter-revolutionaries Bush-Canosa.

Counter Revolutionaries Rubio-Trump.

    As a decent man and a democracy-lover, former U. S. President Barack Obama is still embarrassed by the image of the United States depicted above, as are all of America's international friends. And Mr. Obama believes that all Americans should also be ashamed and embarrassed by what this image now conveys to the world.

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