[Dqban22]

Dear RWG, the American farmers already receive a lot from the American taxpayers' monies through huge subsidies. In the end, the beneficiaries are going to be Castro, Arthur Daniels and Midland and other unscrupulous multinationals, not the American farmers or the Cuban people. And guess who is going to foot the bill for Castro's purchases? You and me, the hard working overburdened American taxpayers. Although the Cuban tyrant has a personal fortune of over one and a half billion dollars, he has defaulted on Cuba's international debts. Why some irresponsible politicians want to bail an international terrorist out at the expense of us, the American taxpayers, is beyond my comprehension.

[RWG]

No different than what already happens with countless of our other friends like the turks and the saudis. the pakistanis got a considerable forgiveness to advance the war on terror. The problem is if we buy a certain foreign policy there is no consistent application across all of our friends. What we give the chinese in the name of all that is holy becomes unthinkable for the cubans. The cubans are hardly more of a threat than the chinese and all of the arguements against trading with the cubans is more relevant when applied to the chinese but we do it with considerable shameless bending of the logic in both cases.