Washington’s War on Cuba
February 05, 2015
A Revolution Begins
Washingtons War on Cuba
by MATEO PIMENTEL
The US does not celebrate or even welcome the independence of other nations; it only countenances servitude. Indeed, the nation that wins its sovereigntyonly to prostitute its resources for the sake of American empireis the nation that gets the green light from Washington. Yet, if America does not receive a warm, economic, post-independence welcome, its war hawks invariably circle. Sometimes they circle anyway! Then bombs drop. Or, embargos facilitate economic terrorism. Pick a country, any country. This blueprint gets redrawn everywhere, and this is precisely the protocol, the behavioral norm, for maintaining global hegemony 90 miles off the coast of Florida.
Despite the perpetual propagation of its oppressive, hegemonic antagonism around the globe, even a looming specter as carcinogenic as American empire cannot shore-up every possibility of a long-lived rogue power it might enterprise to relegate to the margins of global economy. Cuba, for centuries, has been quite the fly in Americas imperial ointment, and thus, a champion to oppressed peoples everywhere. This has especially been true in the last half-century. Cuba shamed Washington with its revolution some fifty years ago, warring against US-sponsored terrorism and oppression. But the saga is not over. Because Cuba threw off the yoke of subjugation in 1959, US aggression continues to seek retribution for its inability to indenture Cuba to this day.
Almost two centuries ago, the architects of US statecraft envisaged a sphere of influence whereby the entire American hemisphere submitted to total US domination. They named it the American System. John Quincy Adams, for one, specifically asserted Cubas preordained indenture to the US. He claimed there were laws of political as well as of physical gravitation that affected Cuba the same way that gravity pulls on an apple severed from a tree. Adams further predicted Cuba would be incapable of self-support, thus justifying US interest and its savage agenda there. The US then conquered half of Mexico in 1848, acquiring Cuba roughly fifty years later. It is perhaps no coincidence that these annexations took place within but a generation of Adams presidency. As further evidence of imperialist tendencies, the seizures of Mexican and Cuban property rested largely on the unbending belief that the US had not only the ability and the authority, but also the burden of determining economic and political order in its hemisphere.
In one of his most famous chapters entitled A Revolution Begins, Ernesto Che Guevara, a most integral spoke in the Cuban revolutionary wheel, cited Adams in his own apologies for the historic events that took place in Cuba in the mid-to-late 1950s. Che noted how the reasons for Cubas revolution extend much further back in history, before Sumner Welles in 1933, before the 1901 Platt Amendmentall the way back to Narciso López, direct envoy of the US annexationists. Writes Che, These are all links in a long chain of continental aggression that has not been aimed solely at Cuba. Many years before the probability of Ches leadership in Cubas 1959 Revolution would become a certainty, Simón Bolívar echoed similar sentiments gathered through his experience as a liberator in his own right. He noted how the United States appeared to be determined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty. No doubt he spoke of the US species of liberty sardonically. It would appear there was nothing new under the imperial sun for Cuba in the 50s.
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blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)Code named Operation Northwoods, the plans included the assassination of Cuban émigrés, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas, hijacking planes, blowing up a U.S. ship, and even orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S. cities.
The plans were developed as ways to trick the American public and the international community into supporting a war to oust Cuba's then new leader, communist Fidel Castro.
America's top military brass even contemplated causing U.S. military casualties, writing: "We could blow up a U.S. ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba," and, "casualty lists in U.S. newspapers would cause a helpful wave of national indignation."
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=92662
SpearthrowerOwl
(71 posts)A series of well coordinated incidents will be planned to take place in and around Guantanamo [naval base] to give a genuine appearance of being done by hostile Cuban forces.
The United States would respond by executing offensive operations to secure water and power supplies, destroying artillery and mortar emplacements threatening the base. Commence large-scale U.S. military operations.
A Remember the Maine incident could be arranged in several forms.
We could blow up a U.S. ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba.
We could blow up a drone (unmanned) vessel anywhere in the Cuban waters.
We could arrange to cause such incidents in the vicinity of Havana or Santiago as a spectacular result of a Cuban attack from the air or sea, or both.
The presence of Cuban planes or ships merely investigating the intent of the vessel could be fairly compelling evidence that the ship was taken under attack.
The United States could follow up with an air/sea rescue operation covered by U.S. fighters to evacuate remaining members of the non-existent crew.
Casualty lists in U.S. newspapers would cause a helpful wave of national indignation.
We could develop a Communist Cuba terror campaign in the Miami area, in other Florida cities and even in Washington. The terror campaign could be pointed at Cuban refugees seeking haven in the United States.
We could sink a boatload of Cubans en route to Florida (real or simulated).
We could foster attempts on lives of Cuban refugees in the United States even to the extent of wounding in instances to be widely publicized.
Exploding a few plastic bombs in carefully chosen spots, the arrest of Cuban agents and the release of prepared documents substantiating Cuban involvement would also be helpful in projecting the idea of an irresponsible government.
A Cuba-based, Castro-supported filibuster could be simulated against a neighboring Caribbean nation.
Use of MiG-type aircraft by U.S. pilots could provide additional provocation.
Harassment of civil aircraft, attacks on surface shipping and destruction of U.S. military drone aircraft by MiG-type planes would be useful as complementary actions.
An F-86 properly painted would convince air passengers that they saw a Cuban MiG, especially if the pilot of the transport were to announce such fact.
Hijacking attempts against civil air and surface craft should appear to continue as harassing measures condoned by the government of Cuba.
It is possible to create an incident, which will demonstrate convincingly that a Cuban aircraft has attacked and shot down a chartered civil airliner en route from the United States to Jamaica, Guatemala, Panama or Venezuela.
The passengers could be a group of college students off of a holiday or any grouping of persons with a common interest to support chartering a non-scheduled flight.
It is possible to create an incident that will make it appear that Communist-Cuban MiGs have destroyed a U.S.A.F. aircraft over international waters in an unprovoked attack.