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Good for Obama.
If it aint broke, don't fix it. There has been presented no compelling reason to change our policy toward Cuba. This POTUS appears to be making the change solely to be seen to make the change. We should continue the policy of exclusion until the last Castro has died.
I know, I know. But the fact that they are illegal not more than thirty miles to the south of where you're at makes them special to us.
Did you ever see "Smokey and the Bandit" with Burt Reynolds and Sally Field? The premise was smuggling a semi full of Coors beer east of the Mississippi, because at that point in time in the 70's, Coors would not sell their beer east of the Mississippi. So to those of us who lived about thirty miles on the wrong side of the Mississippi (yes, that was me, thirty miles east of Greenville, MS), Coors was something special...even though it's really not that good a beer. The fact that it was smuggled made it special. And so it is with Cuban cigars. One time I did buy some in Vancouver and I sent them to my brother in Mississippi...and he loved them, shared them with his boss.
I guess it's when something relatively harmless is illegal or otherwise unavailable, that something becomes special to those of us among the Great Unwashed.....
Because a rookie president with a flair or James Bond failed an invasion, and played domestic politics with Russia, Cuba has been made into a boogie man to keep Americans afraid. Everyone who goes there for the first time stands in awe wondering what the fuss is. It is a very small island that just wants to be left alone. They kicked out the severely corrupt mafia backed Batista regime only to have to repel an American invasion [Kennedy it is said narrowly escaped nuclear war by calling off air support. The "missile crisis" was manufactured over Kennedy extending nukes into Turkey so Russia simply said "OK, we'll put some in Cuba dick head.
On every front by every president Americans have been lied to about Cuba.
You have to be be the first person I've ever seen that agreed it was a manufactured crisis. Kudos to you sir for knowing the actual history and not the propaganda that I've seen permeate throughout most people I've spoke with.
Why?
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I explained why in the first two sentences. There is absolutely NO compelling reason for us to change the policy and the same old reasons for keeping it. It aint broke, quit trying to monkey with it.
I have no idea why that is.
The information is there in numerous books, it is declassified along with Kennedy's call to Kruschev promising to remove the missiles from Turkey.
I suspect it may have to do with the martyr myth that surrounded Kennedy. He was far from a shoe in for reelection, people were damned pissed off., We forget Kennedy actually lost the debate, especially on foreign policy where Nixon wiped the floor with him. It was day or more later when the media started saying Nixon lost because of the five o'clock shadow.
Kennedy in my opinion was one of the worst presidents of the modern era, behind Ford, Carter and Truman
I'd say it has to do with where I grew up during my teen years in the US as opposed to anything else. That "good ol' boys", Merica HELL YEAH was pretty evident even in the history classes I had to attend in high school and college. Only recently have I seen books that reported the fallacy Kennedy used during the Missile Crisis and still people don't believe it was faked.
That being said, to do with the topic at hand.
I agree that dropping the Embargo on Cuba is a good thing, it gives their dictatorship one less target to point at as the reason why they are failing in terms of governmental controls.
As well exposure of other lies the regime tells them.
I know of what you speak, in grade 8 in a US high school I took detention because I refused to write an essay on "better dead than red" an wrote the opposite with a ramble about the French resistance.
That and the juiced up story of how he was shot, which I always, from the time Jack Ruby shot Oswald, never believed, that I became first a hippie protestor then a journalist in Canada. "You cannot suppress a free mind": Lech Welensa, dock worker.
Let them have some modern cars, and car parts, blue jeans and computers. It will not be long before the Castro regime has a Solidarity on its hands.
I wish some of the forums that I used to post on were still around. I'd love to link you to the stuff people used to say all because I didn't believe the propagada as it didn't make sense with how I grew up (outside the US prior to HighSchool). If those people could have seen the world as it was as opposed to what they were told, public opinion in this would be a lot less one sided.
Quoted for truth! I've been saying that for many years. I'm not a fan of unregulated capitalism, but like opium for imperial China, once the people get a taste for it, it's very, very hard to resist....
You think that explains anything?
It doesn't.
why keep it? who does it help? who does it hurt?
It does. Fully. Again, no compelling reason to change the policy and the US is not hurt at all by continuance. It works as it is. How many more times does it need to be said?