RE: Obama Moves to Normalize Relations With Cuba and Marco Rubio
December 18, 2014 at 4:36 pm
(This post was last modified: December 18, 2014 at 4:40 pm by Heywood.)
(December 18, 2014 at 3:29 am)Parkers Tan Wrote: Normalizing trade would allow us to actually make an improvement in the lives of Cubans, and I would expect over the course of a generation or two work to insert more freedoms into their lives.
Only if you believe in trickle down economics. Tourism, tobacco, sugar, and all the major industries are controlled by the party leadership and the military.
(December 18, 2014 at 4:02 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: I disagree. A Russian conventional military base might have been a fair move but nuclear weapons that could strike America in two minutes was reckless. The potential for a false alarm war or a temptation for a first strike would be too much a strain on the peace. We barely managed to avoid mutual annihilation with a 30 minute lead time.
The soviets put nuclear missiles in Cuban in response to our placement of nuclear missiles in Turkey. The Cuban missile crisis ended when Kennedy agreed to remove our missiles from Turkey.
