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Cuba officially off U.S. terror blacklist

What do we gain from empowering the Cuban dictatorship?
 
OK so how many people here on this board are going to go to Cuba and make a donation to the Castros?

I am, if you want to frame it that way.
 
What do we gain from empowering the Cuban dictatorship?

Cuban cigars, a very nice vacation spot an hours flight away. A museum of awesome vintage Chevys running around, the Castro's both have a foot on a banana peel, they're short on time, no worries.
 
Good. You know any money you spend there will end up with the Castros

And? When I was in Moscow a couple years back, I suppose my spending ended up in Putins wallet. :shrug:
 
And? When I was in Moscow a couple years back, I suppose my spending ended up in Putins wallet. :shrug:

Did you not understand the comment?
 
Did you not understand the comment?

Well, I thought I had. If you didn't like my answer then I suppose not, I'm sorry. Care to rephrase it?
 
Cuban cigars, a very nice vacation spot an hours flight away. A museum of awesome vintage Chevys running around, the Castro's both have a foot on a banana peel, they're short on time, no worries.

Lung cancer and vacations.....ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooookkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
 
50-60 years and 10 or so US presidents have come and gone yet Castro and communism are still there. Our past embargoes and policies towards Cuba has worked so well. So let's not try anything new, let's keep going with same failed tactics and policy.

Obama's getting rid of the old bad policies and creating new bad policies. Castro/Communism continues, just with less penalties against it.
 
Obama's getting rid of the old bad policies and creating new bad policies. Castro/Communism continues, just with less penalties against it.

Why are they 'new bad policies'? Because YOU say so? Or it's Obama and everything he does is 'bad' because the talking AM conservative hosts tell you so?

The old policies are KNOWN to be failures. Let's try something new.
 
Forgetting history gets you what?

....about the same place as not understanding history...

Where to you go from the Cuban missile crisis to Cuba being a safe haven for Isis? That almost belongs in conspiracy theory.
 
Why are they 'new bad policies'? Because YOU say so? Or it's Obama and everything he does is 'bad' because the talking AM conservative hosts tell you so?
Because i say so. My opinions are mine. Not someone else's.

The old policies are KNOWN to be failures. Let's try something new.
Something new? Like appeasement? That never works.

If you want to try something new, try this:
-Raul steps down as leader
-He announces free and fair elections for President AND the Legislature
-Allow international monitors unlimited access to monitor the elections and allow a neutral party to count the votes
-When & if international election monitors are satisfied that the elections were fair and with no signs of intimidation or bias, then sanctions and other restrictions that have been in place for decades will be eased or completely dropped and diplomatic contact can resume

Easy as pie, both sides win.
But no...Obama won't do any of that. Mostly because he's a failure at negotiating.
 
Obama's getting rid of the old bad policies and creating new bad policies. Castro/Communism continues, just with less penalties against it.

It will be ok!
 
Because i say so. My opinions are mine. Not someone else's.


Something new? Like appeasement? That never works.

If you want to try something new, try this:
-Raul steps down as leader
-He announces free and fair elections for President AND the Legislature
-Allow international monitors unlimited access to monitor the elections and allow a neutral party to count the votes
-When & if international election monitors are satisfied that the elections were fair and with no signs of intimidation or bias, then sanctions and other restrictions that have been in place for decades will be eased or completely dropped and diplomatic contact can resume

Easy as pie, both sides win.
But no...Obama won't do any of that. Mostly because he's a failure at negotiating.

Appeasement never works? Who says?

What do you mean by appeasement? Do you mean standing down from a conflict over something you can not change, is none of your business to change, has no other support and is fundamentally conflict for the sake of conflict? That kind of "appeasement". Frankly, I suggest that kind of appeasement is far more effective than the alternatives.

Our 50 years of solo embargo on Cuba amounts to nothing more than a diplomatic hissy fit. Its time for America to grow up.... wait, America has grown up, its just some of its citizens that wish to carry on the hissy....
 
Because i say so. My opinions are mine. Not someone else's.


Something new? Like appeasement? That never works.

If you want to try something new, try this:
-Raul steps down as leader
-He announces free and fair elections for President AND the Legislature
-Allow international monitors unlimited access to monitor the elections and allow a neutral party to count the votes
-When & if international election monitors are satisfied that the elections were fair and with no signs of intimidation or bias, then sanctions and other restrictions that have been in place for decades will be eased or completely dropped and diplomatic contact can resume

Easy as pie, both sides win.
But no...Obama won't do any of that. Mostly because he's a failure at negotiating.

I see, so when you look at China and Saudi Arabia do you have the same criticisms of past presidents who have done business with them yet both countries have repressive regimes, neither have fair elections, etc.?

If you want the US to be so high and mighty concerning communist Cuba and continue sanctions it would be hypocritical to continue to do trillions of $'s of business with communist China, and SA.

Are you OK with that appeasement? You typing on a Chinese made keyboard? Putting SA gas in you car? ;)

Anyway for 50 years our policy against Cuba hasn't changed a thing in Cuba, again so lets try something else.
 
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....about the same place as not understanding history...

Where to you go from the Cuban missile crisis to Cuba being a safe haven for Isis? That almost belongs in conspiracy theory.

At what point did you think people would hijack airliners and crash them in to the world trade center and pentagon?
 
I meant to ask this earlier... but what terrorism was Cuba involved in, again?

Seriously. What did Cuba ever have to do with terrorism?

Forgetting history gets you what?

This is why we're still deadly enemies with England, right? Or maybe it's just that you can't stand for us to forget your history and make our own.

What makes you think Cuba is just going to let ISIS waltz in?

Duh, communism. Don't you know that fundamentalist Islam and communism, despite being pretty much polar opposites, are natural allies? Everyone who isn't a heartland American is allied together to destroy the One True Way of Life.

What do we gain from empowering the Cuban dictatorship?

Prosperity and exchange of ideas are naturally corrosive to dictatorship.
 
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