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I offer a contrary view. I'm an anti-communist who believes the US should have invaded Cuba and deposed Castro. But embargoes don't work; they only harm US farmers and businesses. (Except for strategic goods and commodities, but that's another story.) The Cuba embargo leaks like a sieve because we're the only country honoring it.

We ought to do to Cuba what W. Germany did to E. Germany - flood the island with US goods, TV, radio, CD's, tourists, etc. until the Cuban people demand an end to communism and a joinder with the West.

until the Cuban people demand an end to communism and a joinder with the West.

Will someone call for Castro to tear down his wall of communism? Will the world raise it's voice in support? Will we help the opposition in Cuba? Or will we just support communism becase it helps our farmers sell rice? (I don't believe it a good business, political or humanitarian decision--the taxpayers will only foot the bill for Castro's IOUs and we will line the pockets of a communist dicator and aid him in exporting terrorism and the ongoing oppression of the Cuban people.)

"We ought to do to Cuba what W. Germany did to E. Germany - flood the island with US goods, TV, radio, CD's, tourists, etc. until the Cuban people demand an end to communism and a joinder with the West."

Actaully not a bad idea; in theory.
I'm still waiting for the the masses in the PRC to throw the commie thugs out on their *collectivist* ears after all these years of collecting US greenbacks via the enormous trade we've done with that regime.
At what point do the average chinese citizens begin demanding of the PRC their share of the fruits of the prosperity?
They might not; *if* those masses are in fact, hard-core Communists.

The Cuban people need to let the American people know what it is they desire & cannot have due to their thug; while that damned bunch of stooges at the UN can take a running leap into the Hudson river.

Ref post #18.

Embargoes have never work. This is to pacify the U.S. hyphenated Cuban-Americans (voters) who themselves will try and make a beeline to Cuba to take over once again when Castro is no more.

You are correct. We are the only country not trading with Cuba. But, and here is the interesting part, Castro still gets a lot of good from the U.S. Some business people in the Free Zone in the Republic of Panama order all kinds of goods from the U.S., bring it to the Fee Zone, and reship it to Cuba. In the eyes of the U.S., it is not illegal to ship U.S. goods from a third country. In the end, the goods appear to go to the "in" crowd as apposed to the Cuban on the street. But the point is, U.S. goodies are shipped to Cuba. And yes, we should do what W. Germany did to E. Germany. Do it directly rather than through a third country.