Main Points
- Despite the significance of Obama's determination, he didn't singe-handedly propel the US-Cuba diplomatic policy. The policy change was an accumulation of various efforts/interests from senators, lawyers, private sectors, and oh, the pope.
: "a modern President is bound to face demands for aid and service from five or more less distinguishable sources: from executive officialdom, from Congress, from his partisans, from citizens at large, and from abroad (Neustadt 8). Extremely rare the interests of these five courses are aligned and pressure the President towards a singular path.
- Legacy trumps history+morality in policy-making (?). Imagine if the Florida polls suggested otherwise, if they indicated Obama would lose the state once the embargo was lifted. Would he still have then proceeded? Don't think so.
- Utmost discretion and sensitivity from Obama's tightest circle was crucial.
- The success of the government-private sector coalition in creating a national Cuba-favoring consensus was also shown by how certain news publications cooperated (maybe independently) with the shifting landscape.
" The success of the liberal-conservative coalition in creating a national anti-Communist consensus was shown by how certain important news publications cooperated with the Kennedy administration in deceiving the American public on the Cuban invasion" (Zinn 441)
- Crazy that despite the separation of church and state, support from the pope holds that much political capital.
- How convenient is the word 'humanitarian'? Perhaps no other vocabulary gets abused so frequently as 'humanitarian.' The word scraps the political implications right off the surface of diplomatic discourse.
Questions
- It's possible to alter White House visitor logs? Sounds obvious, but wow.
- What broader agenda does the lifting of the embargo serve the other Latin American nations?
- Compare and contrast Vietnam and Cuba?
- Who's the Cuban Five?
- "allow US telecom companies to help Cuban state enterprises expand internet access" - isn't this an euphemism for dominating the Cuban telecom market by officially allowing US companies to infiltrate before anyone else? Wouldn't it aid Cuban economic growth more if we let Cuban companies establish Internet access?
- How f-ed are we that the current administration has no regard or grasp on the political importance of nuance and subtlety......
- Legacy matters more than the 'humanitarian issues' because destroying Obama's legacy has been at the heart of Trump's political moves so far.
Works Cited
Zinn, Howard, and Anthony Arnove. A People's History of the United States. Harper Perennial, 2015.
Neustadt, Richard E. Presidential Power. The Free Press, 1960.
- Despite the significance of Obama's determination, he didn't singe-handedly propel the US-Cuba diplomatic policy. The policy change was an accumulation of various efforts/interests from senators, lawyers, private sectors, and oh, the pope.
: "a modern President is bound to face demands for aid and service from five or more less distinguishable sources: from executive officialdom, from Congress, from his partisans, from citizens at large, and from abroad (Neustadt 8). Extremely rare the interests of these five courses are aligned and pressure the President towards a singular path.
- Legacy trumps history+morality in policy-making (?). Imagine if the Florida polls suggested otherwise, if they indicated Obama would lose the state once the embargo was lifted. Would he still have then proceeded? Don't think so.
- Utmost discretion and sensitivity from Obama's tightest circle was crucial.
- The success of the government-private sector coalition in creating a national Cuba-favoring consensus was also shown by how certain news publications cooperated (maybe independently) with the shifting landscape.
" The success of the liberal-conservative coalition in creating a national anti-Communist consensus was shown by how certain important news publications cooperated with the Kennedy administration in deceiving the American public on the Cuban invasion" (Zinn 441)
- Crazy that despite the separation of church and state, support from the pope holds that much political capital.
- How convenient is the word 'humanitarian'? Perhaps no other vocabulary gets abused so frequently as 'humanitarian.' The word scraps the political implications right off the surface of diplomatic discourse.
Questions
- It's possible to alter White House visitor logs? Sounds obvious, but wow.
- What broader agenda does the lifting of the embargo serve the other Latin American nations?
- Compare and contrast Vietnam and Cuba?
- Who's the Cuban Five?
- "allow US telecom companies to help Cuban state enterprises expand internet access" - isn't this an euphemism for dominating the Cuban telecom market by officially allowing US companies to infiltrate before anyone else? Wouldn't it aid Cuban economic growth more if we let Cuban companies establish Internet access?
- How f-ed are we that the current administration has no regard or grasp on the political importance of nuance and subtlety......
- Legacy matters more than the 'humanitarian issues' because destroying Obama's legacy has been at the heart of Trump's political moves so far.
Works Cited
Zinn, Howard, and Anthony Arnove. A People's History of the United States. Harper Perennial, 2015.
Neustadt, Richard E. Presidential Power. The Free Press, 1960.
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