Posted on 12/19/2014 9:16:27 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
It’s been a big week for Cuba and a number of Republicans are trying to piggyback on the good news with their own form of discontent. Enter Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, two Batista Republicans if there ever were.
The embargo policies of the United States toward Cuba have been a failure. Originally intended to undermine the governing authority and encourage dissidents in the nation to rise against their dictator, they did not achieve their objective. Much the opposite, actually, as Cuba has seen economic growth since the sanctions were implemented in the 1962.
Even further, the actions of the United States may very well have killed average Cubans. In 1992, an action passed that put further restrictions on the flow of medical supplies into Cuba. This action resulted in restricted availability and may very well have been responsible for the outbreak of many diseases on the island.
So, President Obama observed the situation, witnessed the lack of progress and decided that the past 50 years of policy had failed. It was time for change.
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It’s a policy that makes sense. It’s a policy that deserves a chance to better the lives of those it touches. Obama, can’t lift the embargo. Only Congress can do that, but Rubio and Cruz are both vehemently against improving the relationship of the United States and Cuba. Instead, they would seem to prefer a more barbarous and brutal time. It’s fitting considering Rubio opposed the knowledge brought forth by the CIA torture reports. He supports keeping torture in the dark. He supports leaving Cuba in the dark as well.
Batista Republicans like Cruz and Rubio are exactly the cause of such backward policies as the embargo on Cuba. If it was up to them, they’d have us continuing to bang our heads on the wall, complaining that we still have a headache.
A dissident blogger from Cuba summed up the feeling of many Cubans about the current state of Cuba, to a New York Times reporter in 2008:
“We live turned away from the sea because it does not connect us, it encloses us. There is no movement on it. People are not allowed to buy boats because if they had boats, they would go to Florida. We are left, as one of our poets put it, with the unhappy circumstance of water at every turn.”
It is time to turn to the sea and restore our relationship with our counterparts on the isle.
Dictatorships are brought down by rifle barrels, not by appeasement.
Fair Play for Cuba, Lee Harvey Obama.
Sign,
Fidel C
The apparatchik of all apparatchiks speaks. Great way to insult the people who did come on the boats, RFKay. Never mind cheering on turning the USA more and more into Cuba in many ways.
Sanctions for commie killer Putin - good
Sanctions for commie killer Castro- bad
No wonder dictators are heavy into gun control.
A “guest blogger”!? Didn’t have the guts to put his name to this tripe did he.
No, acutually Ted Cruz’ father fought with Castro against Bautista.
The embargo failed because tons of countries still interacted with Cuba.
Cuba could easily have been brought to its knees if the United States pushed for the kind of targeted sanctions that it applies on Iran now.
Iran is already having problems, and its a far wealthier oil producer.
Funny how the left are the real Batistas as they use raw power of govt to oppress dissent.
Sorry opportunism, disingenuous by Kennedy.
Democrat Menendez as I’ve said repeatedly, has been as vocal or more vocal about this than anyone else in his criticism.
http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/12/menendez_on_obama_cuba_deal_i_think_it_stinks.html
“Menendez on Obama Cuba deal: ‘I think it stinks’”
Kennedy is just going after cheap brownie points, on top of that, NRO says we traded spies who helped in murder:
And needless to say, Menendez is a Cuban.
“People are not allowed to buy boats because if they had boats, they would go to Florida”
Great. Why do I see thousands of Cubans now joining the thousands, maybe millions, of people pouring illegally into our country from every direction to get free stuff and unwittingly helping to turn us into the same kind of third-world disaster they were running from. There’s only so much free stuff available as the demoncrats pillage what’s left of the middle class to redistribute wealth to the invaders.
And why is Obola choosing NOW to open this door as he pushes his damned amnesty through while the wuss-@ssed Repubs just watch? To completely overwhelm the system and destroy it. That’s our Hugo Chavez wannabe. How much time do we have left of what we knew as our “normal” lives? What kind of USA will our sons, daughters, nieces and nephews see in 10 years? There won’t be a shred of the nation that we knew left.
This is all very evil and very destructive. Obola’s legacy - the complete destruction of the mighty USA. I can’t believe I’m helplessly watching this happen by the day. I am totally sick at heart.
It goes to show just how far left that democRATs have lurched in the last few decades. They are now truly, the American Communist Party.
This pathetic re-tread is still trying to be relevant. Can’t believe it.
Rubio told Paul, he didn’t know what he was talking about regarding this matter with Cuba,
Same thing goes with Kennedy, same thing goes with this Dana Milbank whom I read an editorial from earlier.
3 US Senators have Cuban heritage, Cuban-American. 2 Republicans and 1 Democrat but on this matter, all are strongly against this treaty in agreement.
That Menendez, if you see film clips of him, he looked like someone had spit in his soup, he was so disgusted.
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