[lbo-talk] Cuban Pain

[Dorene Cornwell]

Possibly my standards have just been lowered to limbo levels after 8 years
of Shrub's reign of error, but I just thought the whole effect was the
muddled mishmash of maudlin themes steeped only very slightly in actual
politics.

The headline has hardly anything to do with the tearjerker themes of family
separation / reunification, financial support, and anticipated change in US
policy. One might also wonder just why this particular dissident lost at sea
story attracted the attention of the New York Times. But wanting to deal
with the humanitarian issues of family contact is a long way from incisive
comment about a whole bunch of political issues.

DC

On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Dennis Perrin <dperrin at comcast.net> wrote:


> Did anybody read this piece of shit?
>
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/01/us/01cubans.html?_r=1&hp>
>
> I shouldn't surprised, but still, you get the sense that Cuba is like
> Darfur (but not Gaza, since no one really suffers there). Thank god
> newspapers are going out of business.
>
> Dennis
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