US to offer more flights to Cuba

[cattiechaos]

In AP Economics (which doubles as our current events class, like it or not) we discussed the implications of nine US airlines offering charter flight to Cuba, bringing the number from three to twelve. The reason for this is that Americans who have family in Cuba would like to go back to visit their relatives, friends, homeland, etc. Now, Cuba and

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[canadaphile]

This is very interesting. I'm surprised and very impressed they're doing this. It is possible they're trying to rebuild/build friendly relations, make new friends for the future. The Castro government can't last forever. This could be a plot to get close, get to the Cuban people, and then start a revolution to overthrow the government. I've always wanted to take over Cuba.

Cuba's famous for their cigars. I dunno why, but they are. I've never had one, but I have an empty box. :'D;;;;

=^..^=~

[cattiechaos]

Try to overthrow the government again?! After the epic fail that was the Bay of Pigs invasion? XD But you know, I always thought Cuba wanted nothing to do with is and we are the same. But Obama, for all his faults, has been much better at managing international relations with others, which was a definite weakness of Bush - the Slovakia/Slovenia mix-up automatically comes to mind XD I don't know, after a 10 year long haul in Iraq, I'm not keen on invading anyone else for a loooooooong time :P

[canadaphile]

I just think Cuba's a nice little island. I wouldn't mind owning it. Although I was told that Iceland had been up for grabs on Ebay. Damn my lack of income.

Each president has had their faults and victories. Not all of them had relations in mind; not all had war on the mind; not all consider economics. [I'm really tired of people making comparisons of presidencies, as if they should all be the same and be such angels. They do the best they can; they are men, not machines.]

In perfect honesty, I'm all for basically saying "Fuck you, world. We're taking our ball and leaving." We're damned if we do, damned if we don't in terms of foreign relations. Why not focus more attention on our own people? We have our own problems, and while it's great to want to open communications so we can talk to friends and families in our homelands, there are more important issues.

[cattiechaos]

I somehow didn't see this floating around my Inbox even though it was posted 5 days ago >____> Sorry about that.

"I'm really tired of people making comparisons of presidencies, as if they should all be the same and be such angels. They do the best they can; they are men, not machines."

True, because each presidency has faced unique situations and they dealt with them with the nation's best interests in mind, or so we hope. At the same time, I think everyone is entitled to their opinion of "so-and-so was better when it came to economics", or "so-and-so was amazing at getting us through such-and-such-war". Presidents are humans that we hold up to unbelievable standards, knowing that they will fall short but hoping that they will be able to leave our nation in a better state then when they entered the office. In my opinion a President should always have relations, war, economics, etc. in mind, whether they choose to make it the main focus of their presidency or not is up to them