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@CBP210: If that's the only qualification then we should break off support/relations immediately with Vietnam, Thailand, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman, Jordan, UAE, Morocco, Equatorial Guinea, Egypt, Chad, Uganda, and Rwanda.All are singularly controlled authoritarian governments that we currently engage with and support. Seems we can turn a national blind-eye to a lot of issues if there is money/benefit in it for us.Hemingway loved Cuba. That's good enough for me.
@shodan66: I have lots of friends from that country whose family suffered under that regime. many of them fled and one thing they all told me was they would never return while Castro is still alive.
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They suffered because they opposed the regime. That is the fallout of that action, right or wrong they lost.
In my mind this was a gigantic failure of communism only held together all these years by the dolts in Russia and knuckleheads in Venezuela. I see no point in continuing the embargo, felt this way for a while, no matter who our president is. I also don't think we should rush in with a bunch of aid. Let them work their way out of poverty. 4951