JIMMY IN HAVANA
To give what away this time?
Jimmy Carter in Havana . . . where he certainly was this week . . . why was he there? My guess . . . to see what kind of deal could be made with Castro and particularly . . . what if we give Guantanamo Bay back to Cuba the way Jimmy Carter did with our bases in Panama?
The reason I know truth is stranger than fiction is that you can’t make these things up. The general plot of my next novel . . . Washington trying to make a deal with Havana, and the chaos that follows. Jimmy may have beaten me to it.
Maybe Carter’s trip to Havana was an attempt on Obama and Hillary’s part to get around the provision in the Helms/Burton law that prohibits anyone in our government from doing it until the claims of Cuban Americans against Cuba are acted upon.
So . . . what’s the answer in these times of popular uprisings?
Easy . . . Congress should scrub the Embargo against our own people completely and let American business go to Cuba and open up shop. Congress can do this unilaterally . . . then we’ll see how long Cuban Communism and Raul can last. He’ll be coming to Washington on his knees to reinstate the Embargo.