Welcome to the club Arabian Sinbad. I posted something harsh directed at what the site has become, guess what, they deleted the comment, I guess they are too soft for that kind of comments.

Who actually determines U.S. Foreign Policy? Is it the Executive Branch of Government and the Legislative Branch of Government, or is it an elite group of cultists, who daily brief the President on Foreign Policy issues, and brief Representatives of Congress on a regular basis?

How good is, and has been, the information provided to our elected representatives by this secretive elite group? Does this elite group pick and choose from an overwhelming collection of data to provide accurate information to our elected representatives, or do they pick and choose data according to their paranoia induced agendas.

John F. Kennedy said he wanted to “Splinter the C.I.A. into a thousand pieces.”  We now have thousands of splinters in our costly ineffectual bureaucratic intelligence gathering agencies. Those splinters should be incinerated, and the ashes discarded.

“Open covenants, openly arrived at”

IMHO all charges need to be dropped and peace needs to be made with Cuba, who means the United States no harm what so ever.

The United States needs a NEW form of Capitalism for the U.S. Economy, which should be ——Social Capitalism——so that Private Capitalism will not always be burdening the populace with having to cover for the Aristocracy’s greed, as is always the case, when the aristocrats take advantage of the U.S. Economy.

With this new form of Capitalism, the United States should not feel so much animosity toward the Cuban government, because the United States government will then be able to take care of the United States citizens as well or better than Cuba does their citizens, and may also be able to help other countries, as Cuba does, and the two nations will be able to work together as friends, instead of enemies, as the United States sees Cuba.

By Patrick Henry:

“The Cuban embargo has got to be one of the most ill concieved and immoral things the United States have ever done”

Well, actually it is only a continuation of the entire U.S. policy in the entire Latin America, the policy to destroy any democratically elected government which doesn’t sing to the CIA tune, the policy to destroy any economy in this region which doesn’t submit into “Free Market” slavery, just look at Panama, Chile, Salvador, Nicaragua and Venezuela.

“Time passed and Ronald Reagan took office. He was shocked by the Europeans’ lack of gratitude at being covered by what was termed our nuclear umbrella and asked his CIA director, William Casey, to look into the matter”

Norm, your government put the people of Europe under a direct Soviet nuclear strike, and Reagan was shocked? Don’t you think people of Europe didn’t understand, that they would have been the first ones to be slaughtered?

Why can’t the Myers get a sweet deal like Kadish got for spying for Israel?

The Cuban embargo has got to be one of the most ill concieved and immoral things the United States have ever done.  We have fought a war with the Vietnamese and can now fly there and be a tourist.

90 miles away and begging for tourism and growth.

“You shall know the truth… maybe not. Never mind.

He probably did.  Thousands of documents etc. are
‘classified’ daily - more often than not based on a
‘maybe,’ and by people way down on the chain of
command.

I recall that during the Cold War the Russian leader at
the time, Kruschev, said that he got enough
‘information’ from “Time” magazine to keep him abreast
of most anything he needed to know.  In other words,
what the government ‘classifies’ as secret etc. is
stuff that’s common knowledge.

Now let’s mention this salient point before we go any farther:  Surveililance and the entire spyster/shyster business is jobs, production, and sales to the tune of billions of taxpayers’ dollars.
Its sole purpose is to incorporate in the public consciousness a simple-minded dichotomy— “them against-us”—a mindless hysteria that can be jacked up at any moment to promote shooting wars against this or that nation for this or that reason—whatever sells.
  Fearful people go for “surveillaillance and security” like mice go for cheese.  They hunger for excitement in their own dull lives, ignorant of sun, moon and stars.
  Education is the answer, whether you believe it or not. That’s one reason why we can’t be allowed to have good public schools and good public media.

I have a colleague who ends discussions with “No one really progresses beyond junior high school.”  Here is yet another example.  We just get a bit more socially sophisticated, and we add a whole lot of self-reinforcing mental justification for what we are and what we do, but we don’t really behave better or think much more deeply as we age beyond 13.  It always comes down to being part of this group or that group, even if we learn to package those feelings in much more sophisticated ways.  So Myers’ crime was “hating America” because he was seen talking to those other kids!  Whether this really mattered and any real damage was done is not the issue.  He talked to those other kids.  End of story.

The world of geopolitics is a cynical and paranoid game comprised of elements from Monopoly and Stratego. I don’t mention Chess as this a game of intellect played for enjoyment whereas geopolitics is a noir delusion in which ultimately there can only be one winner on the world stage and like the narrow bushian view one can only be “for or agin’ us”. Thus we have the Cuban embargo, sanctions on Iran but hands off Israel, wars for resources but forgetfulness for Haiti and Darfur, and prisoners of conscience to dissuade sanity and debate.