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Just as “The Song Remains the Same”, “The question remains the same.”The embargo has been in place for nearly 50 years (with the exception of a couple years in the 1970s)...yet the Castros are still there. Even if you believe that Cuba's government is the embodiment of evil, and the righteous United States needs to do everything in its power to bring it down, you're still faced with the practical argument: the embargo obviously hasn't worked.
Just as “The Song Remains the Same”, “The question remains the same.”
Namely: What Embargo?
Webster's defines "embargo" as "a government order imposing a trade barrier." As a verb it's defined as, "to prevent commerce."
Yet according to figures from the U.S. Department of Commerce, the U.S. transacted $730 million with Cuba in 2008
So you are quite certain that all the alcohol you have ever drank in your life was domestically produced? That must have taken a lot of effort. And I'm sorry that you haven't opened your palate to tastes from around the world. There's a plethora of good beer and hard liquor produced outside of Murka that you might enjoy.
There is a chance for Obama to do a good thing he might be remembered for in a good way by ending the now meaningless embargo but he;s not smart enough to see that he could be a hero to all Cubans everywhere.
I would love to ne in a position to reunite all the Cubans who fled Fidel with those who have suffered, all these years.
Cuba is no threat to us any more.
ALL FOREIGNERS are a potential threat to the United States.
Aww... you're not serious, are you? Even Canadians? Like Justin Bieber or Celine Dion? Come to think of it, maybe you're right.
That is my feeling too. He is in campaign mood, he already “change” gears.Perhaps I'm just too cynical here, but there's no friggin' way he's going to open up Cuba during an election year. He'll have every Florida Cuban voting against him... prolly not a good idea.
Probably correct.According to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Cuban regime's refusal to entertain the Obama administration's overtures to improve relations reveals that the Castro dictatorship is "an intransigent, entrenched regime," with no interest in political reform.
"It is my personal belief," Secretary Clinton said, "that the Castros do not want to see an end to the embargo and do not want to see normalization with the United States, because they would lose all of their excuses for what hasn't happened in Cuba in the last 50 years." Amen to that.
There is a chance for Obama to do a good thing he might be remembered for in a good way by ending the now meaningless embargo but he;s not smart enough to see that he could be a hero to all Cubans everywhere.
I would love to ne in a position to reunite all the Cubans who fled Fidel with those who have suffered, all these years.
Cuba is no threat to us any more.
Maybe the Castro regime being against ending the embargo is reason enough to end it.According to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Cuban regime's refusal to entertain the Obama administration's overtures to improve relations reveals that the Castro dictatorship is "an intransigent, entrenched regime," with no interest in political reform.
"It is my personal belief," Secretary Clinton said, "that the Castros do not want to see an end to the embargo and do not want to see normalization with the United States, because they would lose all of their excuses for what hasn't happened in Cuba in the last 50 years." Amen to that.
Maybe the Castro regime being against ending the embargo is reason enough to end it.
Maybe the Castro regime being against ending the embargo is reason enough to end it.
Sarah Stephens: The U.N., the U.S. Embargo, and the 20-Year RoutThis will be the twentieth year the General Assembly has considered a resolution condemning the U.S. embargo. In every previous year, the resolution has been adopted in a rout.
In 2010, a resolution that called upon the U.S. to repeal the embargo was approved by 187-2. Only Israel voted with us. Our nation was condemned by our adversaries and abandoned by our other allies with the exception of three Pacific island nations -- Palau, Marshall Islands, and Micronesia --and they abstained. The policy was totally repudiated.
Next week it will happen again. But even if we suffer a defeat of similar magnitude, the vote is likely to attract scant attention.
The press has grown bored with a story it has covered nineteen times before. Embargo defenders will dismiss the outcome because they simply scorn the U.N. as aligned against America. The Obama administration -- which should hang its head in shame for enforcing a policy it inherited with such vigor -- will simply move along as if nothing much has happened.
You are wrong Fidel Castro is in favor of the embargo. I give you Fidel Castro’s reasons to “keep it around”:
When the Castros’ regime returns all the US property they confiscated, would be the time to talk about lifting the embargo. In the meantime the US administration should state put.Obama 'Open to a New Relationship With Cuba’
Obama ‘Open to a New Relationship With Cuba’ - ABC News
ABC NEWS BLOGS
Sep 28, 2011 4:40pm
President Obama said today that his administration is “open to a new relationship with Cuba if the Cuban government starts taking the proper steps to open up its own country.”
“As long as I’m president, I will always be prepared to change our Cuba policy if and when we start seeing a serious intention on the part of the Cuban government to provide liberty for its people,” the president said in a roundtable discussion on Hispanic issues.
Obama cited the steps his administration has taken to “send a signal that we’re prepared to show flexibility and not be stuck in a Cold War mentality dating back to when I was born,” including changes to remittance laws and laws that relate to educational travel.
“What we haven’t seen is the kind of genuine spirit of transformation inside of Cuba that would justify us eliminating the embargo,” he said.
When the Castros’ regime returns all the US property they confiscated, would be the time to talk about lifting the embargo. In the meantime the US administration should state put.
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