should Guantanamo be returned to the cuba

[Thorn]

No she's not. That damned new boat had to have killed her!!

LOL! She's a tough old bird, though!

 

[Mott the Hoople]

LOL! She's a tough old bird, though!

QEII is all right....though her son is a bit odd (though I must admit....calling a member of British Royalty "a bit odd" is like calling George W Bush "a bit conservative".

 

[Cancel3]

Oh I have a great Free Market idea on how to deal with the mine field there. We'll create a new sport called "Extreme Golfing". We'll send wannabe athletes like Tiger Woods or Phil Mickelson to play there. If they survive 9 rounds there then for the first time in their lives they'll be able to make a decent argument that they are actually athletes.

Alternatively we could send disgraced and corrupt Wall Street and Investment Bankers there with their clubs for 18 holes. If they survive, they won't be prosecuted.

Not a bad idea, huh?

Great idea! Except I wouldn't want to be the person who puts in the holes, the flags or maintains the greens.

 

[uscitizen]

Keep gitmo we need someplace to send Bush, Cheny, etc when convicted.

 

[Mott the Hoople]

Great idea! Except I wouldn't want to be the person who puts in the holes, the flags or maintains the greens.

That's easy too. You know the assholes incarcerated at Gitmo? We can't give them a fair trial cause W fucked that up and we cant' turn them lose to return to Al Qaeda. So we can give them the job of maintaining the new golf course!

 

[maineman]

Are you kidding me Charver? It took us 400 years to get you bloody Limey's out of the Caribbean and now you want us to open up the back door again? Not bloody likely!

Gitmo has huge strategic significance for the region. It's the Caribbean/Central American equivalent of Manila/Subic Bay.

Once Castro dies, and we normalize relations with Cuba, Gitmo could have a huge economic impact on the region.

We and the Cubans should do something akin to what was done with the Old Subic Bay facility. The Filipino's now understand that closing down Subic Bay, cart blanche, was a huge mistake with disasterous economic consequences for the Filipinos. So their turning that old facility into an international Free Trade Zone was a stroke of genius though it would still have been better if they had kept the Americans there in a reduced capacity.

That's what the Cubans should do. Learn from the Filipino's mistakes. Re-negotiate the Gitmo treaty to lessen the Americans military presence there and turn Gitmo into an international Free Trade Zone. The economic impact for the Cubans would be huge and immediate.

You'd kill two birds with one stone. The Americans could preserve the regions strategic interest (i.e. keeping you damned Colonialist in Europe where you belong! ;-) while opening Cuba (and the Caribbean) up to trade.

precisely!