Nothing is scarier to white males than collective punishment.

[N35t0r]

At the same time, the US was basing missiles in Turkey. That didn't cause WWIII.

Also, I don't think the cubans had much choice about it, due to the embargo, they had to play soviet ***** or they would have been totally ****ed up.

[pchang]

The Cubans were happy to do anything that could be seen as giving a finger to the U.S. Don't let revisionist thinking cloud your memory.

[Sava]

US policy towards Cuba has been an absolute failure and travesty.

[pchang]

US policy towards Cuba has been very successful



for appeasing the Cuban American vote in Miami and thus, winning over the swing votes available in Florida.

[giblets]

Cuban Americans are dckheads.

[N35t0r]

The Cubans were happy to do anything that could be seen as giving a finger to the U.S. Don't let revisionist thinking cloud your memory.

Sort of, yes. When your rich neighbour uses you as a whorehouse and for quasi-slave labour, and then gets upset when you kick him out to the point of blockading your house, you tend to not see him in very good light.

In any case, this was shortly after the Bay of Pigs invasion. It was more 'trying to avoid the US invading again' than 'sticking the finger to the US'.

[Kidlicious]

They're communists. That explains everything.

[N35t0r]

[Bereta_Eder]

[Kidlicious]

The Red Menace was a real menace. We saved the world from it. Now we have to save it from the Pinko Menace.

[Bereta_Eder]

I think Oerdin's on it.
For all his kind heart he's a bit slow so pretty soon you'll have free health care and not be able to carry guns

[Kidlicious]

Oerdin is just too trusting of bad people, like Obama. He's not a communist sympathizer like Doc.

[giblets]

Kidicious is a Communist agent attempting to discredit conservatives by pretending to be one while being exceptionally stupid.

[N35t0r]

The Red Menace was a real menace. We saved the world from it. Now we have to save it from the Pinko Menace.

I hope there's some world left by the time you finish saving it from everything.

[Kidlicious]

I hope there's some world left by the time you finish saving it from everything.

Me too.