Castro

dannyf

Joined Sep 13, 2015
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He's currently embroiled in some serious media damage limitati
unlike our dear leader, i think self censorship, driven by a PC totalitarian and.intolerant mass media, is the biggest risk to humanity.

diversity of opinions is far more important than superfacial diversities along sex, gender, and race.
 

dannyf

Joined Sep 13, 2015
2,197
this is where many people liked about trump: he speaks his mind freely. they may not like all and everything he has to say but they admire the fact that he speaks from his heart.
 

joeyd999

Joined Jun 6, 2011
6,279
this is where many people liked about trump: he speaks his mind freely. they may not like all and everything he has to say but they admire the fact that he speaks from his heart.
And sometimes his ass.

That was a major concern that I had about Trump. But I think I've learned to live with it.

So far, I like what I see. Until further notice, I'm all in for Trump.
 

nsaspook

Joined Aug 27, 2009
16,321
People seem to forget or maybe just don't know how Cuban troops were used in Africa with the Soviets to install (that brutally repressed internal liberation movements) governments after the end of colonial rule. The proxy wars we fought in Africa were often directed and trained by Cuban commanded forces on the other side. Most of the crap hole countries with open-gun battles that currently exist in Africa are a legacy from that era.

http://militaryhistorynow.com/2016/01/29/the-cuban-army-abroad-fidel-castros-forgotten-foreign-wars/
Kissinger was outraged by Havana’s sudden involvement in the smouldering Cold War hotspot. He blasted Fidel Castro for squandering the progress gained through years of secret bi-lateral negotiations aimed improving relations between the U.S. and Cuba. In fact, documents reveal that the American foreign secretary was “apoplectic” over the communist deployment. He called Castro a “pipsqueak” and demanded that Ford use air power to “clobber” the country’s military infrastructure.[1]

Facing an election in November, Ford balked at the prospect of war with Cuba, but the entire episode highlights Washington’s disquiet over Havana’s often-forgotten foreign military adventures.

Throughout the 60s, 70s and 80s, Castro was only too eager to export revolution to the Third World. Often this support even came in the form of combat troops to lend a hand to various Marxist uprisings. Here are some examples of Cuba’s foreign wars.
http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB487/
We came really close to another Cuba Crisis in the 70's.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban...s_and_negotiations_.28late_1970s_and_1980s.29
 

tcmtech

Joined Nov 4, 2013
2,867
And sometimes his ass.

That was a major concern that I had about Trump. But I think I've learned to live with it.

So far, I like what I see. Until further notice, I'm all in for Trump.
Hey now. I'm sure you, like me, have met many people who say more intelligent things when speaking out their ass then some could ever hope to match when speaking out their mouth. :oops:

Heck, I don't even deny that 80% or more of what I say on here is just butt noise, and and good half of what's left is just armpit sounds, and still look who I can out speak at that. :p
 

Sinus23

Joined Sep 7, 2013
250
The dictator is dead. History is filled to the brim with self-anointed mesiahs. He was no exception. His rule was repressive and suffocating. I feel for the people of Cuba. Two generations were lost to ignorance and mediocrity thanks to that megalomaniac idiot.

May Cuba rest in peace.
I hope you mean "May Cuba live in peace and prosperity now"
 

Sinus23

Joined Sep 7, 2013
250
this is where many people liked about trump: he speaks his mind freely. they may not like all and everything he has to say but they admire the fact that he speaks from his heart.
But when we do it we are idiots.;) (This was meant across the board:cool:)
 

cmartinez

Joined Jan 17, 2007
8,760
I hope you mean "May Cuba live in peace and prosperity now"
"Descanse en paz" has a double connotation in my language. The first being, of course, condolences to the grieving party. And the second is a heartfelt wish for relief from suffering to the one being addressed... it was the latter that I meant.
 

Sinus23

Joined Sep 7, 2013
250
Yeah i have similar problems like that as well when I have to translate my Icelandic dialect to English.

So many words and figure of speeches that have double/special meaning in one language but not the other.
 

JoeJester

Joined Apr 26, 2005
4,390
So many words and figure of speeches that have double/special meaning in one language but not the other.
Words in the English language has multiple meanings as well. There have been times where I visited the dictionary to ensure the usage of a word was not as intended by those complaining proclaimed.
 

Glenn Holland

Joined Dec 26, 2014
703
The lengthily U.S. embargo was because of Cuba's implication in the assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas in 1963.

The Warren Report infers that Lee Harvey Oswald had strong ties to the Castro regime. While the report does not explicitly say that Oswald acted on behalf of Castro, it does say he did leave a trail to Cuba. However, do to lack of U.S. investigative resources within Cuba, Oswald's movements and contacts with government officials could not be further investigated.
 

JohnInTX

Joined Jun 26, 2012
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The lengthily U.S. embargo was because of Cuba's implication in the assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas in 1963.
I don't think so.
Proclamation 3447 signed by President Kennedy on Feb. 3, 1962, established the embargo against Cuba to reduce "the threat posed by its alignment with the communist powers."
http://cuba-embargo.procon.org/
 

cmartinez

Joined Jan 17, 2007
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