“Our choice is: Are we going to let those other countries take that oil? Or are we going to look at our strategic interests and recognize that very close to our shores is a substantial quantity of oil that is going to be exploited?”So says Kirby Jones of the US-Cuba Trade Association, according to the Ottawa Sun. How can there be a US-Cuba Trade Association when the US doesn't trade with Cuba, you're wondering? Well, Bunky, don't ask me.
Suffice it to say this substantial quantity of oil's got hearts thumping in China, India, Norway, Spain, Venezuela, Brazil, and Canada - they want some of the action - and in Miami - they don't. “[Letting U.S. companies drill for oil off Cuba] would damage our ability to press the Cuban government on other issues, such as human rights,” says the director of the Cuban American National Foundation. You wonder how there can be...oh no, you don't.
So the US winds up with three options here: 1] take over Cuba (look how well that's working in Iraq); 2] kiss up to Castro (“Congress” is working on legislation to exempt Big Oil from the Cuban trade embargo); 3] suck wind.
Learn to sail, would be my advice.
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