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Originally Posted by Hugh R View Post
I personally think we should have gotten over the cuban embargo decades ago. I mean we got on with Viet Nam, China and the Ruskies, why not Cuba? Answer, the flipped us the finger and got away with it in our shadow. Looking back on history, if a country like Cuba wants to be communal/communist, and a dictatorship, why the fu(k should we care? Similarly, if Hugo Chavez wants to create great social programs for his countrymen and sell us his national resources, which are a one time deal, to pay for his great social experiments, why shouldn't we take him up on the opportunity to plunder his national resources at the long term detriment of his countrymen? Same thing with the Arabs, why not use up their oil first?
Totally agree, its time that it ended, like years ago.
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