(December 17, 2014 at 5:28 pm)Minimalist Wrote:(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?
The Cold War.
This.
U.S.-Soviet relations drive the policies of, well, just about everything of the time period up until the Soviet Union collapsed. It certainly didn't help that Khrushchev and Castro wanted to park nukes a few score miles off the coast of Florida (not that the USA was blameless, don't get me wrong, far from it).
The fact of the matter, though is that Cuba, if it ever did, does not pose any threat to the USA. The Cuban people are the ones who suffer - and they were never our enemies.
