Obsession -- a definition!!

Commentary by:
Dr. R. goose Gosswiller

WARNING!!! Language may offend some Net-surfers!!

Our government. Yeah ours. The United States government trained these thugs and criminals in the art of torture and hideous murder and when they get the power you can be assured of a proverbial bloodbath.....
Remember Tienneman square in China??
Nobody. Not even the Chinese government, knows how many disidents were murdered by the government in that frightening night of insurrection, and the same will hold true in Havana when the deal shakes down there.
And it will.

"My country, right or wrong" died in the 60's a long with a whole bunch of other 'trust your government' bullshit, and rightfully so. When the government is being stupid it's a constitutional duty that 'we the people' point it out to the powers that be, and then do something about it if they won't.
It still bothers me that we don't seem to know what Nixon had to hide about the Bay of Pigs. Kennedy apparently didn't know either and it eventually cost him his life (depending on which conspiracy theory you subscribe to, but numerous of them point to the Anti-Castro Cubans and the Mafia as being involved. Anyone who still believes that Lee Oswald did the JFK assassination by himself needs their head examined!!)
In the era of Nixon or Reagan one had to be very careful with the issues one chose. These swine were more vindicitve than Don Corleone, and used the power of the IRS, illegally mind you, to harass "disidents". Of course the definition of disidents in this instance is anyone who didn't agree with the President or his policies.
Remind me again, which of us is a "repressed people"??
Free??
I guess it depends on your definition of free.
That note from the IRS spread fear and trepedation amongst lots of "so called liberals" during the 70's when Nixon was "getting even" with those who provided less than positive support for his policies.
It wasn't a whole lot of fun to be on the enemies list until after it's existance was made public. Then there was copious amounts of fashionable indignation by those whom felt slighted by being left out!!! Puh-leeeze!!!!
Would they have been so indignant if the IRS came a knocking on their doors??

The CIA can't wait for Castro to be gone. Once he dies, there is going to be a power vacuum in Cuba similar to the one in Chile when the CIA assisinated Allende. They put their own hand chosen "Generalisimo" into power and stood back while Pinochet ruthlessly murdered thousands of so called disidents. Who's going to be the CIA's guy in Cuba??
Despite predictions that Castro's more ruthless brother Raul will take over, the chances of that really happening for an extended period of time are very slim. As soon as Fidel takes his last breath the forces of CIA will be at work causing more hate and discontent in the barios than they have seen in many years under Castro because it's been so surpressed. Much more than they can get away with today. Cuba, si....Castro, huh??
Hey, they did it in Argentina, Chile, Mexico -- do I need to list them all?? And what about Diem in Vietnam?? What makes you think they won't try to pull the same in Cuba??? It's ripe and ready to pick......just as soon as Fidel is dead.
"But this is the era of morality", you say.
Yeah, keep dreamin'. That's what Americans are good at.....fantasy!!
What secrets about the Bay of Pigs did Nixon take to his grave?? He obviously had something big to hide. It came out in the most hideous fashion all throughout the Watergate tapes. But no details.
"Call off the FBI."
They might uncover some real steamy stories about the Cubans and the CIA trying to kill Castro and other various and sundry immoral and unethical plots to eliminate the commie to the south, nintey miles off the coast of Florida.
Shall we bring up competance?? If the KGB wanted Castro gone, they would have eliminated him.
Period.
What's wrong with the CIA??
Oh. We're the United States. We have scruples. We're more moral than the rest.
Bullshit!!!!
Since when?? And if so, why??



Thus far, Castro has outlived all of his antagonists in the U.S. (Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Reagan -- Reagan is brain dead, but then he was brain dead all through the 80's -- just look at his record).
If I were him I'd be gloating more than a little. He took Uncle Sam by the nuts and has been squeezing on them for over 35 years!! And you've been wondering why Sam has such a high squeaky voice....
But there's not much else to gloat about in the Cuban revolution. Does provide distraction from the issues at hand however, kind of like the "war on drugs" in the U.S. -- keep 'em thinkin' we're doing something about drugs or crime, and they won't concentrate on the fact there's someone stealing money from their paychecks. (That's a whole 'nother subject!!)
The people of Cuba have suffered immeasureably from the attitude of the U.S. towards their government. Especially recently when the posture is no longer necessary.
Where is the threat??
The specter of "Worldwide Communism" is dead. Though I do have to admit, there are those out there who continually insist there is still a commie under every bed....Hey, I've seen it. I know of what I speak!!!
The U.S. government is in bed with the head commies in China, so what's to worry about a puss laden little zit like Castro. He's really nothing more than an anoyance. A rash on the ass of the U.S.A.
No big deal, just a bit uncomfortable.
So why continue to lose sleep over this minor issue?? No reason other than the national ego. Plain and simple.
The national ego.
Obsession!!

It's the same national ego that got an extra 25,000 guys killed in Vietnam when Nixon had "his plan" to get out of Vietnam during the '68 elections.
Yeah right.
If you've read Kissingers or Haldemans book about Nixon and that period you know what his plan was. His name. Nothing more. The name Nixon. Chief commie hunter in the U.S. was going to scare the North Vietnamese into capitulation at the conference table.
Uh huh.
Right.
How many kids died while they were haggling over the shape of the fucking table????
Worked like a champ didn't it?? Nixon my ass!!
And between '68 and '74 -- the era of Nixon -- about 25,000+ names were added to that wall. And that's just U.S. casualties.
In 1968 the U.S. Air Farce dropped more tons of bombs on a small village in the Central Highlands of Vietnam called Que Sahn than they dropped on all of Germany in WWII. That's a scary thought!!! Especially when you realize it did absolutely nothing to the enemies reserve and obstinance.
Obsession!!!

Like Vietnam, Cuba is an economic opportunity that is ready to exploit once the U.S. get's off of it's egotistical high horse and lets our businesses take advantage of the opening of markets instead of letting petty politics get in the way. Exploit is really the wrong word to use because of it's negative conotations. Whatever business does in Cuba will raise the living standard of "Joe Cuban".
What makes anyone think that doing business with Cuba gives credibility to the Castro government?? The Castro government has already shown its stripes. It's a dog of a known color which can and should be dealt with appropriately.
But that certainly doesn't mean that our businesses shouldn't be allowed to climb on the bandwagon and take advantage of the opportunities the present themselves.
I've said for years, you give me $100 million and I should be able to turn it to $1 billion in less than 10 years in Vietnam. Cam Ranh Bay and Danang have some of the most beautiful beaches anywhere in the world.
I know, I cleaned some of them for the Navy in 1970 (it's called the 'shit detail' in Navy vernacular).
With $100 million I would build resorts and timeshare them to the wealthy Asians, Indians and Pacific rim investors.
The same could be done in Cuba. In fact, Fidel nationalized and then closed all the resorts that were in place when he took power. Examples of burgoise western capitalism dragging the Cuban people into the slime. And where are the Cuban people today?? In even deeper slime!!
Granted. Many of the clubs of the '50's were Mafia owned and controlled, but the Cuban workers were earning a better living than they have since!
There are gorgeous beaches on the island and they should be exploited. Bad word I know, but that's what it is. Blatant exploitation, but guess what, the Cuban people will be a whole lot better off economically for quite some time before they take over their own destiny once again. Hopefully this time it will be an internationally acceptable destiny.
National ego. That's the whole sad screed surrounding the U.S. attitude towards Cuba.
Wise-up America....or should it be Grow-up America??
Obsession.

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Updated 14 Sept., 1999