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Castro to Obama: Give us back Gitmo, end embargo . . . then we'll talk, bro



There's one moment I remember very clearly with clenched teeth from the 2008 presidential campaign. Senator Barack Obama, who had no experience in foreign policy and hadn't the slightest idea what he was talking about, informed us that it was "ridiculous" to think foreign dictators care about U.S. leaders sitting down to talk to them. Obama had little patience for the idea that ties with America were worth anything, or carried any kind of meaningful prestige. He scoffed at the idea that by setting conditions for talking with these thugs, we were making them pay any sort of price whatsoever.
Getting the chance to develop ties with the United States wasn't really worth working for, Obama believed. That was patently ridiculous, but you've heard of self-fulfilling prophecies, yes? Through his performance as one of the worst presidents in this country's history, Obama has managed to turn this silly notion into truth. And for the proof, all you have to do is check in on our current talks with the communist thugs who run Cuba. You probably thought Obama was extending unmerited favor to the Castros by offering to restore diplomatic ties. Turns out they don't see it that way. It's the Cubans who are driving a hard bargain:
Cuban President Raul Castro has demanded that the United States hand back its Guantanamo Bay military base before full diplomatic relations between the countries can be restored. Castro also asked for a complete lifting of the decades-old trade embargo and for compensation for its effects, saying that without these changes the recent diplomatic thaw "wouldn't make any sense." President Barack Obama pledged earlier this month that the White House would move quickly to restore ties with Havana, scrapping a slew of travel and economic restrictions with immediate effect and dispatching a U.S. delegation to Cuba for a first round of historic talks.

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Castro also insists the U.S. has to offer "just compensation to our people for the human and economic damage that they're suffered." Now seriously, at this point, if the U.S. delegation does anything but say "up yours" and walk away from the table, we are the biggest bunch of chumps this world has ever seen. Cuba is an economic basket case and a human rights nightmare. They need us a hell of a lot more than we need them. And yet Obama has his delegation sitting there and letting the Castros dictate conditions for the restoration of diplomatic ties. And why do you suppose the Castros would think they can get away with this? I'll tell you exactly why. Because real communists understand the nature of American leftists. They are useful idiots who buy all that collectivist rot, and actually have no backbone or principle to stand on. The Castros know that Obama is weak and will fold like a cheap suit, and that his economic base wants to see ties to Cuba restored simply as an ideological imperative. The American left is so delusional, they're actually demanding that we restore ties with Cuba, just to prove how wrong anti-communist thinking has been for the past 100 years in this country. And Obama thinks the same way they do, which is why he started this process without really knowing what he was getting into. So no, we're not going to get them to change their tyrannical ways as a price for new ties to the U.S. Quite the contrary, they're going to make demands on us, and we're probably going to comply because that's just how Obama rolls. Nice job electing this guy, those of you who stumbled drunk to the voting booth and pulled the lever for him. Twice.


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