Obama Moves to Normalize Relations With Cuba and Marco Rubio

[DramaQueen]

I'd like to see a better cuba and laos

Did they really believe it was going to do any good?? Have it??

[Anomalocaris]

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.

[Mister Agenda]

loses what's left of his fucking mind!

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/12/senat...relations/

Senator Marco Rubio pledges to block efforts to normalize Cuba relations

50 years of failure is no reason to change strategy, huh douchebag?

Oh. I thought the President was also going to normalize relations with Marco Rubio. Now I get it.

[Anomalocaris]

loses what's left of his fucking mind!

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/12/senat...relations/



50 years of failure is no reason to change strategy, huh douchebag?

Oh. I thought the President was also going to normalize relations with Marco Rubio. Now I get it.

embargo against Cuba might have been a bad idea to start with, embargo against red states is long overdue.

[Minimalist]

The republicunts will never normalize relations with Obama.

[Lucanus]

The republicunts will never normalize relations with reality.

Fixed

[Heywood]

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 justification has been that Florida is a swing state and contains a large population of Cuban exiles who hate the Castros.

I pretty much agree with Obama here, the embargo simply hasn't been effective at removing the Castros from power and it is probably time to take a different tact. However I am also thinking that Obama just handed Florida to the Republicans in 2016. 2016 is going to be about Ohio now me thinks.

[Chas]

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 justification has been that Florida is a swing state and contains a large population of Cuban exiles who hate the Castros.

I pretty much agree with Obama here, the embargo simply hasn't been effective at removing the Castros from power and it is probably time to take a different tact. However I am also thinking that Obama just handed Florida to the Republicans in 2016. 2016 is going to be about Ohio now me thinks.

*tack

[Tombochan]

A cornerstone of our policy concerning Cuba has been differing levels of trade embargoes. As with every other embargo we've been party to, the ones who suffer under them are the everyday citizens not the rulers nor the elite classes. That makes us guilty of gross cruelty and further shames me to be an American.

[Jackalope]

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.