In Miami, the mayor says military action may be needed in Cuba

[SouthBayDem]

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Source: Miami Herald

Miami Mayor Francis Suarez says the U.S. should explore air strikes against Cuba, telling Fox News on Tuesday that “what should be contemplated right now is a coalition of potential military action in Cuba” similar to U.S. interventions in Panama and Yugoslavia under presidents from both parties.

Asked if he was suggesting air strikes in Cuba, the Cuban-American Republican responded: “What I’m suggesting is that option is one that has to be explored, and one that cannot be just simply discarded.”

Suarez, a Miami-born lawyer whose father was Miami’s first Cuban-born mayor, did not directly call for military action. But he said it should be considered, and pointed to past military interventions that included the killing of Osama Bin Laden with a U.S. air operation in Pakistan.

And, in an interview after the TV appearance, Suarez told the Miami Herald that he was told he’d receive a phone call from President Joe Biden after reaching out to the White House, and planned to ask the president to consider military intervention in Cuba.

Read more: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article252730363.html

[lapfog_1]

1. Yup - that will ensure another generation of dictatorship

nothing would unite the people of cuba more than direct action by the US Military

[mpcamb]

16. Let Miami Mayor Francis Suarez (R) lead the charge up San Jan Hill.

[CanonRay]

2. We're finally getting out of Afghanistan

and these morons want to start shit in Cuba

[rpannier]

3. Made a huge mess of the ME and North Africa

Have to find a new place to screw up

[dflprincess]

9. Really we already did that

Batista, the dictator before Castro was a U.S. stooge and every bit as bad as Fidel, maybe worse. No Batista, no Castro.

It was not unlike backing the Shah and then being shocked when he was overthrown.

[multigraincracker]

14. You are on the money.

Batista and the Shah were the product of big oil, sugar and the mob and more the enemy of the people than we remember.

[markpkessinger]

10. Right, and now the neocons need a new cash cow! n/t

[msongs]

4. the mayor is free to parachute into cuba any moment he is ready and able nt

[soryang]

5. from the Marco Rubio dreamworld

Sure, let's start another war.

[peppertree]

7. You're not kidding. Latin American fascists are decades ahead of our Trumplican friends:

To them, coups has always been the answer to everything (cocaine, optional).

[soryang]

8. Maybe the people in South Florida who believe this should assemble their armada

...and stage another Bay of Pigs.

[peppertree]

11. The keep plotting (Alpha 66, etc.) and hoping that some future Repug president will back an invasion

But of course, they always get the same thing: "get me re-elected, and we'll oust Castro for you....promise!"

[monkeyman1]

6. this mayor need's a piss test -asap !!

[ShazzieB]

12. I just used this in another thread, but I think it fits this one, too!

[monkeyman1]

13. already got a war here , called republican party !!

[atreides1]

15. Not only NO!!!

HELL NO!!!

[Omaha Steve]

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