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America\u2019s Ready Supply of Enemies<\/a><\/h3>\n
The U.S. political process seems to rely on a steady supply of foreign \u201cenemies\u201d to hate, but sometimes politicians overcome hostilities and talk out differences, which remains the hope for the North Korean standoff, says Ann Wright.<\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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Enemies of the United States come and go, but the longer they espouse revolutionary ideals and thus defy the United States, the longer they stay enemies. Eventually, U.S. officials try other strategies, such as engagement, to undermine or win over these adversaries.<\/p>\n

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Currently, the U.S. does not recognize\/have diplomatic relations with only three countries\u2014two built on revolutionary models that the U.S. doesn\u2019t like, the Islamic Republic of Iran and the communist regime of North Korea \u2014 and Bhutan, a remote Asian kingdom in the Himalayan mountains that purposely isolates itself and has diplomatic relations with only India.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m on the way to visit a former U.S. enemy but now recognized diplomatically by the U.S.: Cuba. This trip will be my third in 18 months and the second since the U.S. reopened diplomatic relations with Cuba.\u00a0The Obama administration took the big leap of talking with the \u201cenemy\u201d with its secret discussions with the Cuban government over a period of two years.<\/p>\n

While discussions were proceeding, commercial businessmen and journalists provided the political cover for Obama to withstand the withering criticism from those who strongly opposed dealing with the Cuban government that has been in power since the Cuban revolution in 1959.\u00a0The U.S. broke diplomatic relations with the new Cuban government on Jan. 3, 1961, because of its nationalization of U.S. businesses in Cuba and its alliance with the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n

On July 20, 2015, U.S.-Cuban relations were reestablished after 54 years.\u00a0On March 20, 2016, President Obama visited Cuba, becoming the first U.S. President in 88 years to visit the island.<\/p>\n

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America\u2019s Ready Supply of Enemies The U.S. political process seems to rely on a steady supply of foreign \u201cenemies\u201d to hate, but sometimes politicians overcome hostilities and talk out differences, which remains the hope for the North Korean standoff, says Ann Wright. Enemies of the United States come and go, but the longer they espouse […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[15268,6963,2006,655,827],"class_list":["post-23902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-ann-wright","tag-consortium-news","tag-north-korea","tag-propaganda","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23902"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23904,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23902\/revisions\/23904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}