President Obama: Normalize Relations With Cuba
April 11, 2009 at 12:30 PM Leave a comment
I agree with David Rothkopf:
If I may make a couple of brief comments on this- and I am unconstrained by affiliation with the United States government right now – so perhaps they will be in a slightly different direction.
The editorial in today’s Washington Post was absurd.
The position of the Florida contingent on this is Paleolithic.
The policy is indefensible on any grounds,
The reality is that Cuba may be special, but you have to ask yourself why it’s therefore easier to travel to or do business with the Stalinist, nuclear weapon-toting North Koreans, or whether it’s more comfortable for us to be totally economically integrated with the Saudi royal family and their depredations, or if we are concerned about human rights, why are we so integrated with and why are we the sole supporter of a government in Afghanistan that has just made rape in marriage legal and denies women the right to go outside without the approval of their husbands?
So this notion that some how democracy alone is the only criteria that we should use in defining the nature of relationship doesn’t stand up to any scrutiny whatsoever, and the reality is that only one country that has successfully been isolated by this fifty year embargo, and that is the United States of America.
Our [US-Cuba] policy dates back to the Edsel.
It is the Edsel of American foreign policy.
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