Being in Miami for Elian meant he was effectively imprisoned by a media circus and a highly excited and volatile crowd. Where he is now he's with his own family, in a place where he can have a bit of peace and quiet. And he's not leaving the States until the courts have made their final decision.

And why did all this happen? Because people with political agendas want to use the child as a weapon to strike back against a government in Cuba that they don't like.

I've heard no evidence that Elian's father isn't a perfectly good father. As I understand it, Elian was in his custody back in Cuba to begin with.If he decides he'd sooner bring him up in Cuba than in America, that's his right to decide, and it doesn't seem in any way an irrational decision. I can't see any grounds for anyone to say that he is not the person to decide what is best for his child.

Just imagine a situation where Elian had been living with his father in Miami, and his estranged wife had being taking him to some other country, and been killed, and the people were saying "No he musn't go back to that terrible place where they have massacres in schools every couple of weeks", and so forth.

Thee's been too much outside interference in the personal affairs of this family already.