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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHillary Clinton: would like to see the United States "move toward normalizing relations" with Cuba
A roadmap of the path to normalization:
http://americasquarterly.org/charticles/the-new-normalization/
See? Just like Nixon. The NYT just ran yet another editorial pushing normalization with Cuba yesterday. Something seems to be cooking on that front.
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Hillary Clinton said in a recent interview that she would like to see the United States move toward normalizing relations with Cuba. This remarkable statementfrom quite possibly the next presidentcame at the end of a critique of the current U.S. policy that insists on political and other reforms in Cuba as a precondition for modifying the current sanctions the U.S. imposes on that country.
In Clintons view, the U.S. embargo on Cuba has propped up the Castros because they can blame everything on it. In adopting this new position, she has diverged importantly from her husbands policy of carefully calibrated responses to positive developments [by the government] in Cuba. Instead, she now favors a unilateralist policy that would unconditionally normalize relations, thereby depriving the Cuban government of long-standing grievances with the U.S. thatin her viewit exploits to maintain the support of the Cuban people.
However, when she spoke of normalizing relations with Cuba, Clinton focused exclusively on the embargo. In doing so, she seemed to conflate an absence of punitive measures levied on a country with normal relations. But normalization is more than that.
A metaphor that pictures nationstates as neighbors living in the same community may be useful in illustrating what normalized relations look like. To begin with, such relations involve considerably more than refraining from active hostilities. They also include extending to one another the rights, privileges and courtesies that flow from the principle that all residents share equally in the benefits of belonging to a neighborhood.
What would that look like in the case of the U.S. and Cuba? more at link..
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)Jeeeeez. Let's change the subject from hard things.
FrodosPet
(5,169 posts)They are all important topics.
roguevalley
(40,656 posts)and not when she needs cuban votes to beat jeb bush at home.
dilby
(2,273 posts)This is something that really should have been done a long time ago.
B Calm
(28,762 posts)Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)Johonny
(20,854 posts)Why we still don't... because everyone is afraid of the Florida vote.
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)and head of Foreign Affairs, he's an obstructionist on Cuba.
KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)autumn of 2002 and spring of 2003.