Ruminations

Blog dedicated primarily to randomly selected news items; comments reflecting personal perceptions

Wednesday, April 01, 2009

Beautifully Vacuous

"I didn't want to leave, it was such a relaxing place, so calm and beautiful", claimed the world's reigning beauty queen. It wasn't Honolulu she was visiting, nor the island of Crete or Venice with all their other-worldly charms, but Cuba. Well, Cuba has its beaches, its sweet and kindly impoverished people and its music to enthrall the tourist.

And Cuba also has the U.S. prison installation at Guantanamo Bay. And there, Dayana Mendoza enjoyed mightily the attention of 'the guys from the Army'. Those 'guys' were 'amazing with us'. Which is to say their lovely visitors, Miss Universe and Miss USA. Invited by the United Service Organizations, supporting U.S. troops, which invitation the two were delighted to accede to.

Irresistible, the opportunity to 'entertain' the troops, as it were, with their physically gorgeous presence. Certainly not with their scintillating wit and bright intelligence. The place that has proven to be such an embarrassment to the administration of the U.S., housing 240 Muslim detainees was described by Ms. Mendoza as a "relaxing, calm, beautiful place".

Amazing that the 240 'foreign terrorism suspects' incarcerated in that detention centre don't quite realize how fortunate they are. They only think they're being held in a prison camp with a miserable reputation for torture, while in reality they're being generously guest-housed in a natural Paradise. They need only look at Ms. Mendoza's enthusiastic blog entry to confirm that little tidbit to quench their discontent.

"It was a loooot of fun!" Well, certainly it must have been, to get a guided tour of the military personnel encampment, being escorted about as celebrity-visitors, seeing the barbed-wire fence, the minefields and watchtowers. Better than a war movie. It's real! Right there in real time! No virtual reality here; it is virtually reality. Of course there was also the bar, and the 'unbelievable' beach.

"We visited the Detainees camps and we saw the jails, where they shower, how [they] recreate (sic, really sick) themselves with movies, classes of art, books. (Think about it, what those fundamentalist Muslims must have thought of those immodest lovelies...) It was very interesting. We also met the Military dogs, and they did a very nice demonstration of their skills. All the guys from the Army were amazing with us."

No doubt, no doubt. Their sparkling presence must have truly boosted morale. Ms. Mendoza can entertain Hugo Chavez on her return to Venezuela. They will have much to discuss. Cretins in overdrive.

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