(December 17, 2014 at 5:16 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: As someone who's a little young to remember it and hasn't read up much on the subject, what was the justification for the embargo in the first place?
It was a dumb thing to do during the cold war. Our over the top reaction to cuban nationalizing American private assets drove Castro from wanting to be a semi-independent, non-aligned, fence straddling communist state like Yogoslavia, to wanting to host Soviet missiles.
