12-01-2015, 12:09 PM
Magda Hassan Wrote:This is a really great gambit. The whole base is illegal under Cuban law. It was only ever meant to be a coal loading facility for US naval ships and it has been quite some time since the US navy has run ships on coal. So the US has been in breach of its lease since Batista times. While Batista was happy to keep collecting the rent for his deep pockets the new Cuba wanted their independence and never wanted the US there and asked them to leave. But they didn't. Ever since the revolution Cuba has never accepted a dollar for the illegal occupation of their country by the US. So any thing the US does and builds there must also be illegal. None of it has anything to do with loading coal onto ships.
Blimey, I didn't know that. I figured there was a long standing - sort of 99 year lease - or something similar arrangement in place.
So much for US adhering to its own often invoked rule of law (and order) then.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14