First of all I don't need to dig into history to find these human rights infractions. Check out our drone strikes across the middle east killing innocent civilians left and right. Look at the Federal government indefinitely detaining people that have never been convicted of a crime, look at the federal government spying on its own people, stopping and frisking whomever they feel without probably cause. Must I continue? These are all things we just accept now-a-days. Just because they are becoming a norm does not mean they are right. As to Cuba, I again point to nations across the globe that we turn a blind eye to. China, Myanmar, Equatorial Guinea, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Zimbabwe, Sudan, Burma, Saudi Arabia, and Eritrea all have leaders that are known to oppress their people. Why fixate on Cuba? It seems childish to advocate an embargo on an oppressive and communist state when it is Cuba and is not essential to our own needs, but when the situation is the same in China, where we do need them economically, all of a sudden an embargo is not warranted. Stop picking and choosing and using the same old arguments to advocate an outdated relic of the Cold War.
