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This is a tempest in a teapot. The same UN that refused to stop the Rwandan genocide in 94, cares about this garbage. If you want to go to Cuba, you can as many of my friends have. If you socialists think that capitalism is evil, you should be HAPPY that the evil Yanqui businesses are kept out. I like it because it make Cuban cigars rare in the US, so when I give it to a friend, they are impressed.
Rosetown @ 9:33 AM PDT, Oct 30, 2008
Is this not the approach that the liberals wish us to use against the Iranians. If it has not worked with Cuba then it certainly won't work with Iranians either.
DanW @ 9:03 AM PDT, Oct 30, 2008
Agree. Obama, end the embargo now!
Richard in Alaska @ 9:59 PM PDT, Oct 29, 2008
We have to keep the Embargo going to save face for the botched Bay of Pigs invasion.
DaveT @ 9:50 PM PDT, Oct 29, 2008
Cuba is no more a terrorist state than Arizona. Though they have the racist John McCain who voted against MLK day. The U.S. deals with terrorist states consistently Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Syria, Iran (we still buy their oil) And we have our own domestic terrorists: remember Oklahoma City? And most recently, the dragging death of a black man in Texas. The killing of a gay man in Wyoming. Lynching ropes hanging on doors outside of black college students. White supremacists who wanted to kill Obama. Cuba? Ha! We have bigger problems here.
DaveT @ 9:49 PM PDT, Oct 29, 2008
We punish Cuba, yet we do nothing, or say nothing to curb Communist China's human rights violations. What hypocrisy! We get lead paint in our toys from China. Melamine in food and milk. Poison! And we keep mum. Walmart and George Bush/McCain don't have the guts to "punish" China. Yet we punish Cuba. I'm less afraid of Cuba than China. China has the atomic bomb. What does Cuba have? Atomic cigars?
DaveT @ 9:38 PM PDT, Oct 29, 2008
The Missiles of October are long gone. Mother nature and hurricanes pose more of a threat to our eastern seaboard than communist Cuba. Without the backing of the USSR, Cuba is crumbling into the sea. Castro is on his death bed. Communism has failed miserably. But the U.S. embargo against Cuba only exacerbates their problem. Oh, sure, its our punishment for being communist. Yet we still trade with red China and Americans are free to visit communist Vietnam. The GOP and the Right continue their "red scare." Especially with their attacks on Obama. McCarthy is dead. And has gone down in history as an American Embarrassment.
DaveT @ 9:34 PM PDT, Oct 29, 2008
Who is exercising an embargo against Cuba and the Cuban people? The USA or the totalitarian government lasting almost fifty years. In a country where the government controls all private productive activity, even the posession of peasant's tools like "machetes", blaming the current economic situation on the USA embargo results ridiculous. What the Cuban government wants is access to unlimited credit to buy goods and do what they did to UEC and Japan. Cuba owes more than 20 Billion dollars and refuses to pay.
Joao de Miranda Camoes @ 8:22 PM PDT, Oct 29, 2008
That nation can trade with other nations. It does not need the "Imperio Americano", as the Government of Cuba refers to the U.S. What is interesting is the notion that the remittances that Cuban-Americans send back will help the Cuban peoplenot live in abject poverty. This to me is another example of other people and nations blaming the U.S. for their own problems. Why should Americans, of Cuban descent, send "our" dollars to people that can't even protest their own government for some kind of "change".If elected, maybe an Obama administration will negotiate with that dictator, with out pre-conditions
Sardonic_Male @ 8:21 PM PDT, Oct 29, 2008
So what are we going to do when the two Castro brothers finally die? Run around and try to find a policy to deal with a country ninety miles away from America at the last minute - will we even have a clue as to who the new people in power are and what their views on international relations are? Everything that we accuse the current Cuban government of being - this current Bush administration has done or is suspected of doing. The embargo should have been laid to rest a long time ago so that the Cubans can decide their own future not some bitter end old veterans of the Bay of Pigs sitting around in Miami.
SonnyB @ 6:51 PM PDT, Oct 29, 2008
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