Here was something from Amnesty's Blog.
In today’s Cuba, it remains virtually impossible for anyone to peacefully express ideas opposing the Cuban government. All media are under the strict control of the state, as are unions. Despite the subsequent release of dozens of political prisoners early this year, short-term arrests and harassment of political dissidents and human rights activists remain a troubling reality on the island...
and the embargo hasn't dislodged it, either. time to try something else.
possibly. we're their closest neighbor and the biggest economic force in the hemisphere.
i'm curious about that myself. maybe the combination of ending the embargo and the Castros exiting the scene will be enough to topple the dictatorship.
Nothing will happen until Gitmo is closed and the US is out of Cuba. Trade isn't their big interest and if it was the US is about the last place they would shop. China, Canada, Venezuela, Russia, France, Spain will be who they do business with.
Think the "liberation" of Iraq where everyone thought the US would be welcomed with open arms. The US is pretty much despised there
I'm not really against trade and diplomacy with Cuba, but in this international relationship, who's going to be the party that's going to gain the most? I really don't think that it's going to be the US. As such, then, Cuba needs to give some, such as releasing political prisoners, and other human rights issues, for example. Minimal cost, but something. Don't think that Obama's going to do that, or be able to do that.
So having spies makes one a terrorist? No it doesnt. We have spies, we (the US gov) essentially intercept the whole worlds communications. Does that make the US gov terrorists? Based off this logic, we better put ourselves on our own lists of state sponsors of terrorism...
No that would be based off your logic. Quite different than those who have been doing this for 25 years.
Mission of the Center for Security Policy:
To identify challenges and opportunities likely to affect American security, broadly defined, and to act promptly and creatively to ensure that they are the subject of focused national examination and effective action......snip~
Center for Security Policy | About Us
They didn't say having spies makes one a Terrorist. They informed people what Cuba has concerning espionage.
Wow.. Quite the doomsday hypothetical the CSP have thought up there. "If Iran launches a conflict against the US they might use Cuban intelligence". So now we are basing our list of dreamy hypotheticals?
Hmmm no surprise here, a claim with no specifics...
:roll: *Jaime Suchlicki is Emilio Bacardi Moreau Distinguished Professor and Director, Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami. He is the author of Cuba: From Columbus to Castro, now in its fifth edition; Mexico: From Montezuma to NAFTA, now in its second edition and the recently published Breve Historia de Cuba.
Notes 1) See Pedro Roig, “Venezuela-Cuba Military Cooperation and the Narco-Terrorsit Connection.” Cuba Focus. March 18, 2014. :lamo
Seems they reference their Sources and those on the Military Panel.
.So they are basing this essentially of a hypothetical. Not only is the author of the TownHall piece grasping at straws, but the study she sites is as well. The whole argument seems to be based around Iran, Venezuela, and Cuba have good diplomatic relations, Cuba has spies, and therefore if Iran and the US go to war Cuba might offer them intelligence. :doh Its non terroristic activity then put in the context of a hypothetical... This kinda backs up the reasoning to remove them from the list, a lot of the justification for them to remain on the list was purely petty political reasons
i agree that Guantanamo Bay should be closed. however, i think that normalized trade relations with the biggest economic force in the region is bound to have an impact on the Cuban economy.
Quoted for truth! I don't smoke - I hate smoking - but doggone it, once I see Cuban cigars for sale here stateside, I'm gonna smoke me one and listen to the greatest anti-war song ever written! Funny how that song still applies so strongly today, so long after the Cold War (which cost Cuba so much) was done and over with....
No precedent for that, huh?
Yet today's Republicans don't have a problem with Nixon and China--as well as Reagan and the Soviet Union.
And look past the hundreds of thousands of lives of American soldiers who were killed in war due to those two nations.
Not to mention the remaining Veterans from Korea and Vietnam.
GOPs say they are concerned with the Cuban people--which is why they want to keep those people destitute .
You are setting up an awkward condition here.
If the standard is the party that will gain the most, then the prior policy was not all that useful anyway. We have very little evidence that Cuba either changed from within because of or was forced into isolation because of our Embargo policy. We really did not gain that much under prior policy thinking, but ensure an enemy some 90 miles off our coast. Then saying that Cuba has to give something, *now,* in order to change relations with the US seems dubious. Since prior policy did not really accomplish much we have no real choice but to consider a new policy that may do enough for Cuba tomorrow were we might see some degree of change. Now that has nothing to do with a guarantee of change, just a notion of seeking peaceful trade based relations with various nations in hopes it shifts the nation through trade and diplomacy.
The way I see it is since we have decades of a Cold War thinking policy that did not achieve many goals. Perhaps we should try a policy that does something for the people of Cuba and the US, in economical sense, and see where we stand down the road. It would be absurd to suggest immediate changes and/or place other conditions in a manner where the only fall back from that type of negotiation is that failed decades old policy the rest of the world ignored anyway. I mean the Netherlands, Belgium, Canada, Spain, China, France, Germany, the UK, Brazil, Mexico and dozens of others already abandoned the idea and actively trade with Cuba. Continued isolationism is head in the sand thinking.
We have to start somewhere or we go right back to a 1958 policy that failed, I suggest we try some trade and diplomacy.
That's try for Saudi Arabia, China and other countries that we call allies.
What is that they say is the definition of insanity -- doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results? Well, we have had our Cuba policy in place for over 50 years and it has not caused Cuba to stop being a Communist nation. It's just imposed hardship on the Cuban people.
Nope. That is literally justification they are using to keep Cuba on the list...No that would be based off your logic.
Cool they have an about us page and been around for 25 years. Is this an appeal to authority?Quite different than those who have been doing this for 25 years.
Mission of the Center for Security Policy:
To identify challenges and opportunities likely to affect American security, broadly defined, and to act promptly and creatively to ensure that they are the subject of focused national examination and effective action......snip~
Center for Security Policy | About Us
In an article about terrorism and cuba's supposed "support" for terrorism...They didn't say having spies makes one a Terrorist. They informed people what Cuba has concerning espionage.
So we are going to go with the appeal to authority argument...*Jaime Suchlicki is Emilio Bacardi Moreau Distinguished Professor and Director, Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami. He is the author of Cuba: From Columbus to Castro, now in its fifth edition; Mexico: From Montezuma to NAFTA, now in its second edition and the recently published Breve Historia de Cuba.
1 source to 1 specficit argument. The only source cited in the whole freaking article.Notes 1) See Pedro Roig, “Venezuela-Cuba Military Cooperation and the Narco-Terrorsit Connection.” Cuba Focus. March 18, 2014.
Cool. Last time I checked people can have diplomatic relations with whatever country they choose.•On January 15, 2014 Cuban First Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade described Iran as a “strategic partner” of Cuba.
Hezbollah is not in Cuba. The IHH is providing aid to the countries small Muslim population.. Its not even considered a terrorist organization in the US. This is how easy it is to find the BS in this point. The bullet from the article is titled "Hezbollah in Cuba", yet they accuse the IHH of funding Hamas not Hezbollah, because the IHH operates in Cuba... :doh It operates all over the world, in many European countries. You really gonna uphold this claim?•“Hezbollah in Cuba,” the Hamas-funded Turkish “charity” known as IHH continues to operate in Havana. IHH is a member of the “Union of Good,” an umbrella organization that financially supports Hamas.
Also not terrorism.•Last summer the Castro regime was caught smuggling weapons out of Cuba on a North Korean vessel in violation of UN sanctions. Cuba lied to the international community about the content of the vessel. The official UN Report on “Cuba-North Korea Illegal Weapons Trafficking,” published in March 2013, revealed “a comprehensive, planned strategy to conceal the existence and nature of the cargo.” The Report concluded, contrary to Cuba’s allegations, that “some, if not all, of the consignment was not expected to be returned to Cuba.”
Even if true, also not terrorism. Not a terrorist organization.•In February 2014 former Cuban intelligence official, Uberto Mario, described how the Castro regime is training Venezuelan “Tupamaros,” pro-Maduro groups who violently attack Venezuelan students.
I'm not "whining".Whining about Townhall who linked directly to the source doesn't do your argument any good.
Hmmm. So we should keep Cuba on the list of state sponsor terrorism for doing non terrorist activities?Especially with someone who does analysis and obviously would be looking at the US Interests and not others.
The thing is. None of the things you listed are terrorist activities, and now your argument seems to be moving towards appealing to authority.Nah, they go off the History, put current facts together. Its like they do this thing called research. Then they give their assessment.
LOL !!
Communism and a dictator keeps them destiutue, not the GOP.
They trade with just about every other Nation out there.
Here was something from Amnesty's Blog.
In today’s Cuba, it remains virtually impossible for anyone to peacefully express ideas opposing the Cuban government. All media are under the strict control of the state, as are unions. Despite the subsequent release of dozens of political prisoners early this year, short-term arrests and harassment of political dissidents and human rights activists remain a troubling reality on the island.
The harassment of dissidents sometimes takes the form of acts of repudiation (actos de repudio). These acts are government-coordinated demonstrations, usually carried out in front of the homes of political opponents. During an act of repudiation, political opponents and human rights activists are subjected to verbal and physical abuse by groups of people chanting pro-government slogans.
Working within this system, Cuba’s government could send the world a message it now welcomes accountability, transparency, and independent monitoring. But so far the message it has been sending is a very different one. Last month when the Inter-American Commission held a hearing on Cuba’s human rights record, the seats reserved for the Cuban government delegation remained empty, just like in previous hearings.....snip~
https://www.amnesty.org/en/articles/blogs/2015/04/cuba-summit-of-the-americas/
Nope. That is literally justification they are using to keep Cuba on the list...
Cool they have an about us page and been around for 25 years. Is this an appeal to authority?
In an article about terrorism and cuba's supposed "support" for terrorism...
So we are going to go with the appeal to authority argument...
1 source to 1 specficit argument. The only source cited in the whole freaking article.
Cool. Last time I checked people can have diplomatic relations with whatever country they choose.
Hezbollah is not in Cuba. The IHH is providing aid to the countries small Muslim population.. Its not even considered a terrorist organization in the US. This is how easy it is to find the BS in this point. The bullet from the article is titled "Hezbollah in Cuba", yet they accuse the IHH of funding Hamas not Hezbollah, because the IHH operates in Cuba... :doh It operates all over the world, in many European countries. You really gonna uphold this claim?
Also not terrorism.
Even if true, also not terrorism. Not a terrorist organization.
I'm not "whining".
Hmmm. So we should keep Cuba on the list of state sponsor terrorism for doing non terrorist activities?
The thing is. None of the things you listed are terrorist activities, and now your argument seems to be moving towards appealing to authority.
So Cuba is Obama's repressive regime that he wants the US to cuddle up with then?
MMC's been posting where instances of Cuba promoting violence and terrorism, so now the US is to cuddle up and trade with such a partner?
Interesting that, and inconsistent, I'd submit.
How about if Cuba accepts back all the illegal Cubans that we have housed in our prisons due to violent crime?
How about if Cuba extradites the US criminally sought?
Now there's a trade that I'd like to make.
The United States does not have that, why should Cuba?
When the American voter knows what happened in Benghazi, when Gitmo's torture chambers are empty, and when we know whether Hillary ****ed up and cost Amereican lives with her email games, then the US can make demands on Cuba
When the US also makes the same demands on China, Iran, and most of its other "friends", then they can make demands on Cuba.
The US has lost the moral high ground.
Cmon now F&L.....would Amnesty just make things up only when it concerns a Communist Regime?
I am not saying they are mistaken, only that the US hasn't a leg to stand on to demand anything of Cuba. America needs to deal with the cancer that is Gitmo and then can offer suggestions to other nations. Demands don't work anymore.
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Many were expected this to happen soon enough. About damn time this happens. The only thing Cuba exports now is doctors. Another step in the right direction to repairing this relationship between our two countries. [/FONT][/COLOR]
Every other nation, except the superpower 90 miles away.LOL !!
Communism and a dictator keeps them destiutue, not the GOP.
They trade with just about every other Nation out there.
I am not saying they are mistaken, only that the US hasn't a leg to stand on to demand anything of Cuba. America needs to deal with the cancer that is Gitmo and then can offer suggestions to other nations. Demands don't work anymore.
Oh and what do you think.....the Castros were doing all they could to make sure that the good people of Cuba were able to live their lives with Liberty and Freedom? That the Castros were doing all they could to improve the Cuban Peoples lives, Right?
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