US embargo on Cuba on it's last breaths

[N35t0r]

Obama and Raul Castro agreed to release some detainees they had, Obama calls the embargo outdated and ineffective, Raul Castro urges him to put an end to it.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-30516740

[Kidlicious]

Letting them get away with taking our property. Good foreign policy

[N35t0r]

Letting them get away with taking our property. Good foreign policy

You made them suffer long enough (and, along the way, managed to make most of the population of the island suffer unnecessarily). In any case, your sense of 'justice' is totally ****ed up, so I wouldn't expect you to understand.

[DinoDoc]

It just seems odd to reward them in this manner for taking Americans prisoner.

[Kidlicious]

You made them suffer long enough (and, along the way, managed to make most of the population of the island suffer unnecessarily). In any case, your sense of 'justice' is totally ****ed up, so I wouldn't expect you to understand.

Expecting us to trade with thieves is absurd. Their government is responsible for the embargo. Holding victims accountable isn't justice. It's insane liberalism. It's pinko communism. And it's very bad foreign policy.

[MRT144]

It just seems odd to reward them in this manner for taking Americans prisoner.

You need to hide your American Exceptionalism better.

[DinoDoc]

You need to hide your American Exceptionalism better.

It seems like the surest way to encourage more of the same from such regimes.

[EPW]

Yay Obama (and Canada and Pope Francis and Raul)

to anyone who is against this.

[N35t0r]

It just seems odd to reward them in this manner for taking Americans prisoner.

No, you're rewarding them for returning them. Unlike all the people you still have locked up in Guantanamo.

Expecting us to trade with thieves is absurd. Their government is responsible for the embargo. Holding victims accountable isn't justice. It's insane liberalism. It's pinko communism. And it's very bad foreign policy.

Like trading with Japan, right?

[DinoDoc]

Yay Obama (and Canada and Pope Francis and Raul)

to anyone who is against this.

Rewarding criminal regimes for taking Americans hostage

[EPW]

Rewarding criminal regimes for taking Americans hostage

Yes, the US has never imprisoned a foreign national.

I think the 11 million impoverished people who's lives will be greatly improved by this takes precedent over your silly politics.

[C0ckney]

i hope it happens.

[DinoDoc]

I think the 11 million impoverished people who's lives will be greatly improved by this takes precedent over your silly politics.

You are aware that Obama lacks the ability to end the embargo, yes? It's a creation of Congress, not the Executive.

[EPW]

You are aware that Obama lacks the ability to end the embargo, yes? It's a creation of Congress, not the Executive.

Yes. Hopefully enough of the Republicans have more empathy and foresight than you do. But even if it doesn't pass in a year there's now light at the end of the tunnel.

[DinoDoc]

Yes. Hopefully enough of the Republicans have more empathy and foresight than you do. But even if it doesn't pass in a year there's now light at the end of the tunnel.

Democratic Senator: Obama 'Vindicated The Brutal Behavior Of The Cuban Government'

Is it really only the GOP that you have to worry about on this issue?