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Thank goodness mr. Gross is back from Cuba after 5 horrible years.
You can think what you want of that, bringing illegal materials to a country that has rules clearly not allowing that is not smart. Jailing him instead of just deporting him was also a wrong decision from the Cuban authorities but that is now all solved because he is free.
It looks like president Obama is going to strive for better relations with Cuba because it does not look like the police of the past 54 years has worked. The US trades with just about any other country in the world and by any reasonable standard the embargo policy has failed.
What do you think? Was the embargo wrong or was it not the wrong decisions? Or was it right then and is it wrong to now continue it?
I think it was right all during the cold war. Remember it was the Cuban Missile Crisis that started all of this. Castro then sent his troops to Africa and Central America to help the commies there during the cold war. Castro was the USSR's stooge, proxy if you will.
But I think after the breakup of the USSR, it has sort of outlived its usefulness. But other than that, I really don't care one way of the other.