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My sarcastically tinged post was 
In Response To: You're probably correct, Doug -- if you meant that Batista would have been better than Castro turned-out to be. ()
that our foreign policy intervention in other countries in the name of "Democracy" leads to unfathomable and not pleasant results. Iran/Contra, Iraq, Eqypt, Viet Nam.... This is an adult decision by this President with no downside to the Cuban or American people, that I can see.
Messages In This Thread
- Anyone have charts of Cuba?
- LOL- JUST hung up the phone with a sailing friend REALLY excited
- Seriously, does this mean travel ban will be lifted?
- Being a prudent mariner.....
- WOW!! Just saw the news......
- One of my fellow boaters went aground on a sailboat cutting too close to Cuba.
- Yeah,wonderful. Who cares democracy,about freedom, elections, political prisons? Principles are Sooo 20th century.
- Ken, on the one hand I agree with you...on the other hand....
- Holding the moral high ground with Cuba is a bit difficult given our behavior at Guantanamo
- It was better with our ally General Batista
- We do trade and have "normal" relationships with a number of countries that aren't really democracies, are dictatorships
- The embargo is generational history, gone for most Cubans. All gone in the youngest the world around.
- I'd avoid getting them, they may be outdated before you can use them...;^)
- LOL- JUST hung up the phone with a sailing friend REALLY excited
