It seems to me that whenever an issue comes up involving another country and U.S. in conflict, we get an extremely accurate "americanized" perspective, which makes sense being that a country is not going to advocate citizen's dissent. at the same time, knowing that there is some history between the two countries, we should look a little more critically at what's going on and try to be as objective as possible. The thing i was stating about issues or distractions coming up is the fact that whenever the social norm is threatened, an issue like this comes up to divert attention. I hope noone has forgotten about Abner Louima or Amadou Diallo. Elian Gonzalez is an obvious case of controversy, but look at what's being relatively ignored right now.

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