yitbos
“We can trade with and travel to China, we may as well be allowed to trade and travel to Cuba.”
The glaring hypocrisy of this has been so obvious for so long I have wondered how folks continue to rationalize the two, if human rights are the issue.
Castro survived his entire lifetime in power, a half-century. Who in their right minds would say the embargo has been a success? Every country in the world trades with cuba (except the US), it is clear the present approach is a failure.
yitbos
Castro thrives on the Embargo, not only in Cuba but in Latin America, Canada and Europe.
End the Embargo and the Castro’s will fall.
And while I have been to a certain nation off the coast of Florida as well as to China, I can tell you conditions in that certain nation just off the coast of Florida are better than they are in China.
Failure for whom? For what? Certainly Cuba is a failed state, but our treatment of Cuba certainly hasn't harmed us other than not being able to legally purchase cigars. The fact is even if we had a trade policy going on with Cuba similar to the old Soviet Union, Cuba would still be a failed state. The problem is not our lack of trade with Cuba, but Cuba's Marxist economic system. No amount of trade will help it until it ditches its absurd system. Cuba needs capitalist restructure first.