Howdy All! Generally I like to put a little more thought and effort into my
videos but...
Right now, today, I'm in such a good mood that
I just had to do a video right now. I'm not sure if you are aware of this but today
President Obama made an announcement about US-cuba policy.
This is incredible good news, like amazing good
news and incredibly unexpected. I'm not generally a big fan of Obama but
today I would like to say: Hells
Yeah! and and hats off...
Hats off to Obama, because... Earlier this week
I did a video talking about the United States government and one of the things I
sort of tried to imply is the inertia,
the ... the way that things never move forward or
never change because there are too many people in Washington DC
who are invested in things going a certain way.
Our relations with Cuba are a relic of the Cold War.
The Cold War ended twenty-five years ago but very few people in Washington DC
are willing to act in accordance with that. Washington DC is very interested in
continuing to fight the cold war
and our relationship with cuba was one excellent example of
that. For over 50 years we've kept cuba isolated.
You know what it's been 50 years, the policy we were using
wasn't working and ... now it's finally going to change.
I didn't think this was gonna happen. I was actually planning to do video on the
topic of how stupid our cuba policy was.
Now I don't have to! Obama's decision on this issue
gives me hope for the future. Have you ever heard of a concept called the
New American Century? The American century was supposedly the 20th century
and buy American we mean the United States
century. It was popularized by Henry Luce of
Time Magazine. The idea was that the 20th century,
or at least the second half of the 20th century, was an era of unparalleled
US dominance,
and through that dominance we were able to allow
our more positive values, sometimes our more negative ones,
to impact and influence the entire world.
We were on top, we were number one. Some people have put forward a concept of a
New American Century. These are mostly neoconservative types and think tanks in
Washington DC
looking for ways to screw up the world so that the United States can remain on top
I'd like to propose a broader idea of the American Century. An American
Century that includes not just the United States, not just North America,
but the entire American hemisphere, North
and South America. Here in the 21st century we have an opportunity to
promote the values
that all of America shares. Values like democracy,
values like the rule of law, an ability
to move beyond the sort of older ideologies and the nationalisms that have so corrupted and
ripped the old world to shreds. There's so much that we all agree on
and if we work closer together we can make
the 21st century another American Century. A more real
American Century. One that all the countries in North and South America can
agree on
and be proud of. There are many obstacles to this New American Century.
The drug war comes to mind, immigration policies that are
sort of insane and antiquated. But one of the main obstacles
was the fact that the United States had chosen for fifty years to turn a
small tiny Caribbean nation of 11 million people
into some crazy boogie man that had to be...
avoided, you know. And this was something that that
I never thought would change, or rather I didn't really think would change
for decades. I'm not expressing this very well but,
Yes! Yes! Yes! I'm very
very excited. A lot needs to happen for this to move forward...
Congress needs to step up and ignore some of the more ridiculous parts of the
Republican coalition,
but I'm hopeful. I think this is... this is huge.
This is a big, big step and
something that we should all be happy about. So yes!
Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! This is me doing a happy dance!
Happy dance ... happy dance ... happy dance!
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