I’m sure it is pieces like this one, written by a Harvard University academic and published this week by the New York Times, that gets the conservative ideologues of our society all outraged and convinced of a conspiracy against them.
But then again, Jonathan Hansen’s piece in the Times entitled, Give Guantànamo Back to Cuba, has some legitimacy to it. You ought to read it for yourself.
MAYBE THE DAY has come for the United States to bring an end to that “perpetual lease” that U.S. forces pressured Cuban government officials to sign to allow for development of a military base at Guantànamo Bay – which for the past decade also has been the site of a detention facility for those prisoners of our Middle Eastern conflicts whom we did not want to treat as traditional “prisoners of war.”
Anybody who cares enough to find them can read the past commentaries I have written about that situation – which I still think went a long way toward undermining the U.S. credibility in the so-called “War on Terror.”
There were times when our behavior was as pathetic as that of the “terrorists” whom we lambast!
Then again, it seems that our nation’s behavior with regards to Cuba in general is a sorry, sad-sack story of shame, almost as bad as that of the behavior of Fidel Castro himself.
ANYTIME HE CAN claim the moral high-ground and not be completely ridiculous, you know you’ve done something wrong.
Perhaps the time has come to pull out of Guantànamo Bay. Because other than showing los Hermanos Castro that we’re there because we can be, what is really accomplished for our national security?
And it would be nice to see “Guantanamera” revert back to being a pleasant old melody – rather than a song of protest!
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