Following that government's outlawing of the Solidarity movement, which the Pope had publicly and covertly supported, Reagan suspended Poland's Most Favored Nation trading status, costing cash-strapped Poland some $6 billion a year in sales.
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That was my favorite part. Liberals howl anytime you cut foreign aid, Remember code pink at all those groups protesting the 'deaths of iraqi kids from sanctions'. We still ship grain to north korea.
The hardline stance works nearly every time its tried, and REALLY benefits the citizens of the country.
These dictators destitute their country so much that they actually need the outside world more then the outside world needs them. If the collective force of the outside world works against them they cannot stand.