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That's a good question. He'll likely say "well, that $ goes directly to the people" (but what he won't tell you is that they'll spend them in the dollar stroes, which Castro owns).

The Exiles hold on to the Embargo because they've believed in it for 40 years. If you truly believe in something for 40 years, it's extremely difficult to admit that it is now bad policy. In the years of the Cold War, it was good policy because it sapped the Soviets. We should have ended the Embargo in 1991.

It's an honest question.. one I would like to have answered.

All this talk about Iraq, China and Cuba has me wondering if an embargo is really the way to go. I mean, if it's beneficial then great.. Let's whip up some embargo. I always supported not trading with commies, especially those with a terrible human right's record.

I viewed it as propping them up and acting as an "enabler"

Now, if it's not, or if it's hurting the citizens there and we still gain nothing by it, then maybe we should re-think our position.

Cause it looks to me like Castro isn't going anywhere and neither is Saddam.

The embargo is more of a moral statement than anything else, maybe a little difficult to explain to someone who talks about the exiles as if he were talking about strangers and not his parents, uncles, aunts. etc., but the fact that the things that belonged to us got stolen by Castro.

It may not mean a damned thing to you that my family's land was taken, after generations of us working that land, taken at gunpoint. But it means something to me, and to many more of people just like me.

The line of thought that you are promoting is part of the Maceito brigade's propaganda, and I am not buying it because it isn't the truth. The truth is that whatever suffering the Cuban people in Cuba may face, is the sole fault of Fidel, not the US.

There are morality issues involved here, real complains by real people, and your characterization of your own people as intractable old fools holding on to an idea just for the sake of that idea, brings shame on your family.