Stardate 20011129.1314 (On Screen): Good old Castro; everyone needs a court jester, and he's ours. Cuba wants normalization of relations. It will even pay for all the American property which was impounded in the revolution. All the US has to do is to life the embargo -- and pay $181 billion in damages Cuba claims was caused by the embargo. Then they'll take a few billion of it and give it back to pay for that property. When you're negotiating, it helps if you have something to offer that the other side actually wants; what Castro is offering is to give us some of our own money back while he-and-his pocket the rest. Now is that fair, or what?
(discuss)Update: The US decided that Cuba's offer was one it could refuse. Imagine that!
