DePetris views America’s 66 years of degrading Cuban people largely from America’s perspective, not American imposed Cuban suffering

By Walt Zlotow

The Chicago Tribune’s foreign affairs columnist Daniel DePetris continues to do a disservice educating Tribune readers on America’s illegal, immoral and criminal foreign policies degrading, destroying numerous countries. (Note: The Chicago Tribune is my local paper).

Case in point is his commentary ‘What kind of deal is the US looking for in Cuba?’

For DePetris, it’s all about US foreign policy interests without any mention of their illegality, immorality and criminality.

He begins by referencing how America’s murderous Venezuelan policy, killing over 200 in the boat bombings and capture of sitting Venezuelan President Maduro, is a “a force-multiplier for the administration’s Cuba policy, which centers on increasing economic pressure on the island until its aging rulers either wither away or negotiate their own demise.

It may be a “force multiplier”, but it’s in service of another notch on America’s murderous, criminal regime change belt that toppled Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Venezuela regimes and hopefully soon Cuba and Iran regimes. DePetris writes in such neutral, clinical terms that the uneducated have nary a clue of how degrading, indeed murderous, US policy truly is on hundreds of millions worldwide.

Only at the end does DePetris point out “normalizing the U.S.-Cuba relationship would be the most effective and least costly policy proposal on the table.” Most effective and least costly for whom? The United States of course, not the Cuban people who may suffer anther 66 years unless sensible commentators push back. That certainly does not include Daniel DePetris.

DePetris inadvertently refutes 66 years of America’s shameful Cuban policy degrading life for its 11 million people by stating the obvious that applies to all aforementioned 5 states regimes America deposed: “Cuba isn’t a real national security threat to the United States anyway, (and) can’t possibly compete with U.S. primacy.”

Sadly, the Chicago Tribune has long ceased editorializing on US foreign policy, the most critical existential issue facing Americans. Instead, the Trib has outsourced foreign affairs to Daniel DePetris, a proponent of US exceptionalism, who will never challenge America’s annual trillion dollar war machine wreaking havoc worldwide.

Walt Zlotow, West Suburban Peace Coalition Glen Ellyn IL

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