{"id":61409,"date":"2015-08-15T11:02:41","date_gmt":"2015-08-15T15:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=61409"},"modified":"2015-08-15T11:19:15","modified_gmt":"2015-08-15T15:19:15","slug":"cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61409","title":{"rendered":"Cuba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=61410\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-61410\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Three-Marines-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"Three Marines\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-61410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Three-Marines-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Three-Marines-448x333.jpg 448w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Three-Marines.jpg 495w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Several of you have sent us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/storyline\/u-s-cuba-relations\/honor-three-marines-who-lowered-u-s-flag-embassy-cuba-n410231\">a link<\/a> about the three Marines who lowered the US flag at the embassy in Cuba in 1961 and then raised it again yesterday. Personally, I wouldn&#8217;t have voluntarily taken part in that sh1t show, but I guess that&#8217;s what you do when you&#8217;re called to duty again. <\/p>\n<p>So, the Cuban government should be grateful that we&#8217;ve resumed diplomatic relations with them, right? Well, no, not much. In fact, before the flag had flapped more than a few times, Josefina Vidal, director of U.S. affairs for the Cuban Foreign Ministry, was telling <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/cuba-says-wont-move-one-millimeter-placate-enemies-224243055.html\">Reuters<\/a> that they ain&#8217;t moving on any issues with the US.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Decisions on internal matters are not negotiable and will never be put on the negotiating agenda in conversations with the United States&#8230;Cuba will never do absolutely anything, not move one millimeter, to try to respond,&#8221; she said&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, this administration is doing a bang-up job at this negotiating thing. They just give away the store, every negotiating lever they have and get nothing in return. Cuba is harboring US criminals since the 60s and 70s and we can&#8217;t even get them back. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/ap-exclusive-cuba-dissidents-wont-attend-us-embassy-041336689.html\">Freedom fighters in Cuba<\/a>, didn&#8217;t attend the flag raising yesterday because the Kerry contingent didn&#8217;t invite them.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, Fidel Castro, in a rambling piece written for local consumption the other day, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/fidel-castro-us-owe-us-millions-133858731.html;_ylt=AwrC0CbaU89VhyUAahLQtDMD;_ylu=X3oDMTByOHZyb21tBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzcg--\">says that the US owes Cuba millions of dollars<\/a> for our embargo against Cuban goods. <\/p>\n<p>Let me get this right &#8211; one country out of more than 160 countries doesn&#8217;t trade with the Communist paradise and that&#8217;s the reason that their economy is in the dumper? We&#8217;re responsible for the damage that the communist government inflicted on the people of Cuba? <\/p>\n<p>But I have no doubts that they&#8217;ll get paid by this administration because that&#8217;s how we roll these days. Billions for terrorists at the cost of our own national security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several of you have sent us a link about the three Marines who lowered the US &hellip; <a title=\"Cuba\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61409\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cuba<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-foreign-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}