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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Plenty of strategic reasons.
- It gives the USA a valuable springboard in the Carribean, and helps the USN keep the Carribean what is effectively an American lake.
- It's a useful staging area should we ever need to invade Cuba.
- It's a useful staging area for other interventions, such as in Haiti.
- Good training area.
- Most importantly: It annoys the fuck out of the Cubans.
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We tried to close it, and everyone freaked out over having to house magical prison-destroying terrorist masterminds on their state soil, so it didn't get done.
Nothing to do with the economy as such, just good old-fashioned othering with a healthy dose of Red Scare style paranoia.
edited 12th Apr '13 11:51:35 AM by Karkadinn
Furthermore, I think Guantanamo must be destroyed.Group using apparent al Qaeda recruitment video to slam Senator McConnell on guns
I'm really starting to question the intelligence of Kentucky liberals.
Obama defies Putin, publishes list of 18 blacklisted Russians
Remember Australia doesn't have an Electoral College.
edited 12th Apr '13 1:00:47 PM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016Please, while the federal Republicans rely on corporate donors, it's the local races that get small donor money. Kicking the GOP out of several governor's offices and state legislatures could be a great start to un-gerrymandering the House and turning shit around.
Share it so that people can get into this conversation, 'cause we're not the only ones who think like this.Perkins is a hate monger with zero self-awareness. I knew that before. Yet, when confronted with how LITTLE self-awareness he actually has, I still manage to be surprised.
Yes, let's focus the Republican party back on 'defending core principles,' please. Let the party cannibalize itself so we can replace it with the greens.
Furthermore, I think Guantanamo must be destroyed.Nothing to do with the economy as such, just good old-fashioned othering with a healthy dose of Red Scare style paranoia.
That's the Detention Camp
, by the way, not the main, entire, Guantanamo Bay Naval Base
.
U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) Says Violent Games Are "Practice Simulators"
How to Be a Canadian, chapter 15 (discussing political parties):
This is a satire, written in 2001. It is no longer funny.
From post 53065 :
because we don't have time and attention to care about every issue.
some big issue (abortion, civil rights, slavery, war) is big enough to be in everyone mind, but in most issue (gay marriage, darfur, curriculum, bridges, naval regulation) it would only affect very small number of people and not important enough in our daily life to care about.
so we rely on professional (politician, bureaucrat and interest group) who can decide this thing for us. Name and Party Recognition also not only local matter, even on regional and national level, it is convenient to use them.
You can compare this to medicine, in most case we use professional (nurse, doctor) and follow their advice. Only in extreme case (epidemic) public pay attention to it, in most case people who directly affected by it (patient and their close family) create interest group who care about it ( National Cancer Institute, Alcoholics Anonymous, etc ).
No, even if local politics had more money in advertising, it doubtful people actually follow debates about local matter like where bridges should be built or which corporation should be appointed as garbage collector. There are few issues that can affect local election : NIMBY issues, important infrastructure (major bridge or factory), and others. But in most issues, people are indifferent.
I think its real issue, but it not need to be "solved". There is nothing wrong about relying on shortcut (press, interest group, party) on healthy democracy.
There will be a problem if democracy is corrupted by money, hereditary politician or separatist aspiration. but healthy democracy should have powerful enough institution to handle unimportant matter like local politics without people need to pay close attention to it.
EDIT: Eh, I'm getting too full of myself. Something sobering.
edited 12th Apr '13 9:11:21 PM by RadicalTaoist
Share it so that people can get into this conversation, 'cause we're not the only ones who think like this.So the 2014 Kentucky Senate will be between these
guys
and these
guys.
Nice.
Not that it matters, without Ashley Judd the Democrats have no chances of winning in the Red state of Kentucky.
edited 13th Apr '13 8:57:26 AM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016Ron Paul is launching a foreign policy institute focused on undercutting U.S. interventionism.
Well obviously Barack Obama has his private drone, which he can control via PS 3-controller from the Oval Office.

According to the linked article, closer reading indicates that yes, apparently it was supposed to be for the main naval base. CNN mentioned
they're gonna start doing it within a couple of years from the time that article was written.
I'm still wondering: why bother supporting that base anyway? And what's taking so long in getting the actual detention camp closed? Oh yeah, the economy.
edited 12th Apr '13 11:45:29 AM by Nettacki