Why is the US Picking on CUBA???

[Sikander]

Re: Re: Why is the US Picking on CUBA???

Originally posted by Urban Ranger


Come to think of it, the US has been picking on the little guys since WWII.

Yea, like China.

[Agathon]

Cuba is "the threat of a good example".

[Felch]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger


Ted Striker and DD should take lessons from you.

Nobody is talking about Chinese internal history. It's like saying that our annexation of Hawaii is internal history -- we annexed an independent country with which we shared strong ties. Same with China and Tibet.

The only difference is that we don't engage in a policy of terror, ethnic cleansing and political repression in Hawaii.

[Agathon]

China annexed Tibet because if they didn't, India would have.

[Kuciwalker]

Re: Re: Why is the US Picking on CUBA???

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
Come to think of it, the US has been picking on the little guys since WWII.

Only since? I seem to recall that Latin and South America were in our sphere of influence since before the turn of the last century.

[Dinner]

GASP! You mean trying to undermine one of the world's last totalitarian regimes upsets some liberals? Who would have thought?

[Stuie]

Originally posted by Shi Huangdi
We'll stop picking on them when they return the property they nationalized.

This of course is the ONLY reason for the US stance toward Cuba. If the US corporations got their land back, the US would normalize relations in a minute. Nothing else Cuba does truly matters, regardless of the lip-service the US government gives to "free elections" and "human rights" and such.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger


Ted Striker and DD should take lessons from you.

I assume from this response we can expect no more classic UR anti US posts.

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Oerdin
GASP! You mean trying to undermine one of the world's last totalitarian regimes upsets some liberals? Who would have thought?

But I thought it was the liberals who where undermining Bush.

[Giancarlo]

Why do we pick on Cuba? Well because Castro is still there. If he goes, then there is no reason to pick on Cuba anymore. Afterall, Castro jails and executes his political opposition frequently. But then again that goes in one ear out the other of a typical leftist.

[Agathon]

As opposed to Pinochet? Or Galtieri?

[Lefty Scaevola]

Re: Re: Why is the US Picking on CUBA???

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
Come to think of it, the US has been picking on the little guys since WWII.

Everyone except the former Soviet Union and China of the last few decades was/is a little guy to the USA.
Well anywasy, it it good to see that the goverment is capable of some long term policy, regarless of its relevance.

[Giancarlo]

Originally posted by Agathon
As opposed to Pinochet? Or Galtieri?

Hmmm.. they are still in power? Galtieri was a fool.

[GePap]

Cause Bush thinks excluding black votes won't be enough by itself to win Florida. Though this one might be one expansion of a 40 year failed policy too far- I think it will anger more people than it will please, and might hurt him among younger cuban exiles that actually still have family and Cuba and want to help them.

[SpencerH]

Originally posted by GePap
Cause Bush thinks excluding black votes won't be enough by itself to win Florida. Though this one might be one expansion of a 40 year failed policy too far- I think it will anger more people than it will please, and might hurt him among younger cuban exiles that actually still have family and Cuba and want to help them.

It has nothing (or very little) to do with Bush (thats not to say that Bush doesnt benefit from the status quo). Anti-Cuban sentiment runs throughout the congress on both sides of the aisle. There is nothing anyone can do to normalize relations with Cuba until Castro dies.