[e_castillo]

How is it the wrong angle?

It's my belief thats the Soviets were brought down not by more trade but by less. Sure a capitalist society which observes US patents is in our interest but I really doubt that we are seeing real change in that direction.

[Viva Le Dissention]

Yeah, because 40 years of boycotts with Cuba have brought Castro to his knees.

Do you honestly think that capitalism can exist without freedom? How do you think so?

[Viva Le Dissention]

I really doubt that we are seeing real change in that direction

As an aside, I think that's just completely wrong; witness China's entrance into the WTO. Do understand what sort of hoops that China had to jump through to do that? What sort of rules to which it submits itself? It is bound by every other WTO country in the world--all 160 of them, or whatever the number is now.