Posted on 12/17/2014 9:38:21 AM PST by servo1969
Today Barack Obama normalized relations with Communist Cuba.
The president said the current policies were not working.
Castro already is making demands from the US.
Castro: "The blockade…must cease" #Cuba
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) December 17, 2014
The blockade must cease.
Raúl Castro: Diplomatic relations will be restored, but the economic blockade should be stopped.
— Sjamme van de Voort (@SjammevndVoort) December 17, 2014
Castro also gave a speech today in response to the announcement.
LIVE: Pres. Obama, Pres. Castro holding news conferences to announce changes in relations: http://t.co/YoGbFPNqdI pic.twitter.com/iuKHaBbYWd
— ABC News (@ABC) December 17, 2014
Liberals have always been in love with communist Cuba.
The embargo on Cuba makes no sense; hasn’t for many years. We have normalized relations with lots of countries that aren’t nice to their own people: normal relations are probably the best way of gaining some moral leverage. Anyway, Cuba’s no threat to the USA.
Congress can stop the Marxist.
How many countries have stolen US assets without so much as paying back a dime?
Yet
The U.S. hasn’t blockaded Cuba since 1962.
Always somebody around who loves a dictator.
But our ccountryis an evil one that tortures terrorists. Does castro really want normal relations with a country such as ours? /s
Communism was unlikely to outlast the Castro boys without an infusion of cash and it looks like they’re going to get it. It didn’t take long for Obama to talk about freeing Cubans in this country to send remittances back.
This is a one way street. We will gain “0”.
Bails out Maduro as well.
This must be approved by the US Senate.
Cuba owes us billions for all the property they stole.
I remember crouching under schoolroom desks during bomb drills throughout the Cuban missile crisis and for several years afterwards. My burning hatred for Khrushchev and the Castro brothers has not abated. NO WAY that relations should be normalized with Cuba while that unrepentant generation of hardcare Marxists are still alive. May they and the imposter in chief burn in Hell together.
Maybe that’s because some of them really are communists who want to destroy our country.
Fidel Castro, Che, and Raul captured US citizen business owners in Cuba, put them on trial, then had them put against a wall and shot. I remember that some of the Coca Cola representatives were put to death for their “illegal” activities in Cuba. Fidel was directly responsible.
It isn’t their own people we were mad about, it was their treatment of our people once they took charge.
Well, sort of like the idea behind stopping “pre-crime,” you cannot REALLY read minds. To the extent you can understand someone else’s mind/intent, it MUST be done by hearing their side of things, NOT by assuming the worst just because you hate their past.
It is enough to take things as they actually are.
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