When a beloved pope and a former president (still working for human rights and helping the homeless and poverty-stricken) stand up for Cuba being freed through President Obama, history has already documented President Obama's philanthropic good will in the annals of political and human reform. Unfortunately the blind-sighted are possessed with a transparent defective mind-set chock full of fierce criticism of the first American African president.
Dear Ones,
Former president G. W. Bush said history will determine his rank of president. But history doesn't happen 50 years from now. History records what occurs immediately. President Obama has already risen above all the political garbage hurled at him. In the meantime he inherited an unbearable, tremendous war debt, as well as genocidal condition from vicious carpet bombing of Iraq and Afghanistan–nations who never attacked us.
The contaminated environment on land, sea and air always takes generations to improve. Babies are still aborted and generational deformed among residents and soldiers who handled huge amounts of chemical, radioactive toxicants "exported" via bombs and missiles to the Persian Gulf against the wishes of the American people. But their voices were blurred by the explosions of the Bush reigns–that also includes American Indian women being sterilized in US hospitals in the 1970s, exposed by indigenous doctors and Senator James Abourezk.
The present administration and all US taxpayers are saddened by millions of people killed and burdened as well as cleaning up what will take generations to overcome–mainly, womb-generational deformities–why President Obama is trying to wean off war mongerers of full out-right corporate industrial aggression, a carry over and cultural lag of the archaic past.
Meanwhile, after President Lincoln liberated American Africans, President Obama Liberated Cubans who were still suffering for 50 years of US sanctions that mostly harmed women and children. Ill-will and a futile, failed policy never worked all those years. Now the young people with their enthusiasm and expertise will continue what our present president started, as Cuban salaries hopefully will no longer fill the coffers of a former corrupt regime–what happens when dictators are in control.
Instead of rejoicing over President Obama's determination to free the Cubans and Alan Gross in a historic prisoner exchange–what's been going on ever since man became a warrior–the critics are poisoned by their own anger and hatred. All nations have past histories of corruption. A slap in the face is nothing to 50 years of a stagnant policy that keeps oozing within its own stench.
The world has just witnessed the fact that talking and communicating with diplomacy is more powerful than all the Pentagon's stored atomic bombs and lethal ammunition, now obsolete with the threat of cyber suppression and force more dangerous to freedom and human right of expression. Military drones are used temporarily to wean warrior minds off their guns. Eventually diplomacy, with the US joining others who want change for a better world, will take the place of youth-killing-maiming wars and drones that kill innocent people, euphemized as collateral damage, as well as the targeted culprits.
Here's to a beautiful tomorrow, what the most of the world desires above anything else.
Mame,
www.macdonaldsward.com founder of ERASE BLACK-WHITE LABELING (EBWL) author of POETRY FROM THE HEART
