Why are we still punishing Cuba with sanctions?
After all, we are happily doing business with a totalitarian china which is far more criminally abusive to their people than Cuba has ever been. We even support Israel which dispossessed the Palestinians. Cuba only had the gall to dispossess and kill the wealthy who kept the rest of their country poor, yet we continue to punish it.
10 Answers to "Why are we still punishing Cuba with sanctions?"
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Good question...To me ,its like a bird in a cage...Its kept there only as a reminder that "someone" has power over it ,and that "someone" chooses to deprive the bird of its freedom..(A power trip)
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A similar story to Iraq. Within hours the West was on it's way with all guns blazing, when things went wrong in the Balkans, they sent men with blue hats and white landrovers to keep the peace, and when Russia destroyed Chechnya, they didn't want to get involved! Funny hypocritical world we live in today.
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To garner the Cuban expatriate vote, mainly in Southern Florida. There is no logical reason. If anything, if we hadn't imposed sanctions Cuba would probably have been moving more and more towards capitalism, just like the Old Soviet states and China.
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Dunno why is life still punishing me? What did i ever do to the US Govt
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Actually, Cuba did what Iran did in 1953, it took back ill-gotten wealth from foreigners who used unethical means to obtain it. To the US, that's intolerable.
Then again, that's why the US takes the "our oil under their sand" attitude towards Iraq. The US "thinks" that the wealth of other countries belongs to the US, and that countries which want to use the wealth for the countries' own benefit are "communists", while those countries view the US as a nation of thieves.Like (1)
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It's just business as usual. We also threatened to bomb Haiti back to the stone age even though most of them live in tin shacks and are not far removed from the stone age in the first place. War is about economic issues and any ideological ones are secondary concerns only if they happen to be economically related.
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Because your country's vindictiveness knows no bounds.
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Its called pursuing entrepreneurial agendas, subjective ideas as 'punishment' find no place when it comes to something as ob
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do you vote?
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Posted by crosseyedlemon Jul 12th, 2012 at 10:58AM
For all his failings Fidel Castro is really the only person who successfully thumbed his nose at both the Americans and Russians and survived to do things his way. The Americans could never break this guy so they have to continue with sanctions to at least save face.
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