03-24-2016, 08:42 PM
(03-24-2016, 05:21 PM)Bengalzona Wrote: You ever wonder what they did to us to make us so mad at them?
It's simple.
They decided to be communists and made friends with the Soviet Union.
That's pretty much it. Right?
Sure, they did let the Soviets move some short-range nuclear missiles there in the early 60's. But why did Soviets want to do that? Because we were already doing the same thing to them by stationing short-range nukes in Turkey, their underbelly. It was a tit-for-tat. And the ultimate deal that removed the missiles from Cuba was that we would remove ours from Turkey, which we did.
So, the Soviet Union has been deceased for almost a quarter of a century now. Yet... we are still mad at them. They are commies. And yet, we are buddies with China. They are commies too, right?
No. Our problems with Cuba aren't about them being commies or their former friendship with the Soviets. Our problem with the Cubans is pride. They embarrassed us, in our opinion. They did it over and over again. Sort of like the Road Runner and Wiley Coyote. Are you guys aware of how many attempts the CIA made to embarrass or even assassinate Fidel Castro? Declassified files show that they tried over a dozen times. And some of the attempts were just ignorant. An example: they tried to have Nair put in his skin diving suit to burn off his beard and embarrass him when he had to speak in front of his people on TV beardless. Yes, we actually tried to do that. Worse yet, we failed. In fact, we failed at every attempt.
And that, in a nutshell, is what we hold against the Cubans. It wasn't that they succeeded. It was that we failed, over and over again. And we had too much pride to accept that we failed, just as we had too much pride to admit that a lot of the stupid shit the CIA tried was... well, stupid shit.
And... we have politicians still today who want us to ignore the stupid shit that we did and continue to ignore Cuba as if they don't exist. Why? Because they still cannot face that we did ignorant shit. That's what pride will get you.
Don't forget, the mob was none too happy about losing their casinos.
