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

Under Reagan the Soviets were boycoted by many different countries. If you will remember that a French division of GE sold the Soviets pipeline compressors and this set off a huge political fight. With Cuba you only have the US and no presure being brought against anyone other countries to enforce our boycott an see it the end. Try asking Mexico to stop trading with Cuba! Mexicans look up to Castro as a true freedon fighter against capitalism!

Do you honestly think that capitalism can exist without freedom?

Yes. Try going to a .com site when in China. Oh wait all the internet cafes have been shut down!
I really would like to see freedom come to China but I feel we are going about wrong.

And China isn't capitalist: that's the point.

Yes, the Chinese people are oppressed. Why? Because it is not a capitalist country. The more the US pushes China to become modernized and capitalist, the more free the country will become.

The events of the last ten years in China certainly bear witness to this statement.

I have to leave now, so we can finish this discussion another day, but understand that my side is winning, and my side will prevail. Anti-free trade people are going the way of the buggy whip and the dodo. Dick Gephardt and Howard Dean, both outspoken critics of NAFTA (forget the fact that we had a FTA with Canada long before NAFTA and we have FTAs with dozens of other countries), are getting smoked in the primaries and polls around the country. It's just a matter of time. FTAA is on the way, LAFTA is on the way, and hopefully Bush will restart the Doha round with more success than in last Sept.; I think he will. Ya'll just might as well start getting used to it.