Many on the right spent the last five years arguing -- correctly -- that the CIA and the rest of the intelligence community are pernicious liars, authoritarians and tyrants, but now -- what? -- should be unleashed to bring benevolent freedom and democracy to the Cuban people?
What's the difference between Hillary Clinton wanting to use the US military to bring regime change to Iraq, Syria and Libya -- claiming she just wants to help the people there -- and those now urging the US Govt intervene to change the regime in Cuba?
https://twitter.com/MiamiHerald/status/1415078632582680583
At least Marco Rubio never pretended to be anything other than a war-mongering neoconservative and interventionist, wanting to overthrow governments he doesn't like & use regime-change operations to "help." But many on the right purport to oppose that:
https://twitter.com/marcorubio/status/1415181464845656065
Gave interviews today to several right-wing outlets on why US regime-change intervention in Cuba is profoundly inconsistent with MAGA/America-First foreign policy principles.
Leftists who only talk to leftists and think that's noble or effective are self-indulgent idiots.
Leftists who only talk to leftists and think that's noble or effective are self-indulgent idiots.
Also, there are influential MAGA voices arguing that regime-change intervention in Cuba is neocon/liberal-interventionism, not America First, and argue the same about US involvement in Israel's wars.
Refusing to see those splits and build bridges to them is immoral and dumb.
Refusing to see those splits and build bridges to them is immoral and dumb.
On the left: one of the smarter leftists on this platform, on Cuba.
On the right: one of the smarter and more consistent MAGA advocates, on Cuba.
If you don't see or value the opportunity to build on these commonalities, then it means you value posturing more than outcomes.
On the right: one of the smarter and more consistent MAGA advocates, on Cuba.
If you don't see or value the opportunity to build on these commonalities, then it means you value posturing more than outcomes.
Obviously, people in different political factions and of different ideologies - including the two above - have significantly different views. If they didn't, they wouldn't be in different factions.
But they have many important commonalities on which much progress can be built.
But they have many important commonalities on which much progress can be built.
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