Normalizing U.S.-Cuban relations?

[KingOrfeo]

It's mainly the Miami Cubans, voting in a swing state, who have kept the embargo in place 20 years after the Cold War ended.

Odd bunch, Miami Cubans. I once briefly worked there, and several young Cuban-American cow-orkers were absolutely confident that not only will Cuba one day be a state of the Union, but that there will one day be a bridge -- a bridge you can drive across -- across the Straits of Florida from Key West to Havana. That would have to be the longest bridge ever built, and ya better make it hurricane-proof!

 

[ryan8558]

Name one Haitian who cuts cane in Cuba.

Jose Rodriquez

(oops, nevermind, he's Puerto Rican)

 

[KingOrfeo]

Name one Haitian who cuts cane in Cuba.

Cubans cut cane in Cuba. Haitians cut cane in Florida.

Why? You think that would change if the embargo were dropped? Why would it? And so what if it does?

 

[Beco]

It's long over-due.

Yet another broken Obama promise...........

 

[Beco]

I have great relations with a Cuban. My girlfriends Cuban. She's a real piece of work lemee tell ya.

I love her to death.

didnt you have an Asian girlfriend not long ago?

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Cubans cut cane in Cuba. Haitians cut cane in Florida.

Why? You think that would change if the embargo were dropped? Why would it? And so what if it does?

Cuz Cuban sugar is pretty cheap on the world market.

 

[unregistered]

 

[KingOrfeo]

Simple, renounce Communism, free the people, re-pay American business, and maybe we can talk.

If we can trade with China and Vietnam, without those conditions, why not Cuba?

 

[unregistered]

 

[Liar]

They're in our hemisphere.

We have aeroplanes these days. No place on earth is all that far away.

 

[JohnnySavage]

If we can trade with China and Vietnam, without those conditions, why not Cuba?

Venezuela nationalized their oil industry, but we still buy their oil. Vette's convictions stop at the gas pump, I guess.

 

[KingOrfeo]

They're in our hemisphere.

So what? They're no danger to anybody.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Since the Senate is controlled by Democrats and the White House is controlled by friends of Communism and love to embrace the enemy, I expect Obama will decree it.

Grampa Urine hates Commies, primarily because they kicked Marine Corps ass in the 'Nam.

Anyone he disagrees with is a Commie by definition.

 

[Dazzle1]

Venezuela nationalized their oil industry, but we still buy their oil. Vette's convictions stop at the gas pump, I guess.

I boycott cigo and signed a petition to out law Joe Kennedy sweatheart deal

Remember Venezuela stole the oil from private companies

 

[patient1]

Look, let's keep this in perspective: A U.S. embargo is never going to starve Cuba into submission, because everybody else trades with them. But if we drop the embargo, that means 1) a lot more Americans get to visit Cuba and 2) a lot more Cubans get to visit America. If you want to destabilize the regime*, that's the way to do it.



* But I ain't sayin' which one.

Well, the isolation obviously didn't work. The stalwart anti-commi himself, Rush Limbaugh, found a way to experience Cuban cigars.

Years ago I would have said it was Soviet subsidies keeping the regime afloat, but those ended with the USSR, and they are still here.

It seems to me that the quickest way to change Cuba is to open the barriers so that the people can see how far behind they have fallen. As it is, all they know about the USA is Guantanimo.

I think breaching the Iron Curtain did more to end Communism than isolation ever has. I'm game to try that approach in Cuba.