Is Cuba still a threat to the U.S.?

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I don't often agree with Barry Hussein's policies but I agree in this case that it's time we at least tried to normalize relations with the quirky socialist country just 90 miles from our borders. Americans can travel pretty much anywhere in the world if they want to risk it but they can't travel to Cuba without permission. You can buy Cuban cigars in Canada but not the U.S. because the Kennedys were mad at the Castros. Now that it's pretty much acknowledged that state supported terrorism is an Islamic concept, the image of the old socialist guerrillas skulking through the jungle wearing surplus American fatigues seems pretty harmless.
 
The embargo clearly hasn't worked. It's time to officially lift it and let the chips fall where they may. Once Cuba's economy picks up that might be the very catalyst needed to change that country's political issues.
 
I don't often agree with Barry Hussein's policies but I agree in this case that it's time we at least tried to normalize relations with the quirky socialist country just 90 miles from our borders. Americans can travel pretty much anywhere in the world if they want to risk it but they can't travel to Cuba without permission. You can buy Cuban cigars in Canada but not the U.S. because the Kennedys were mad at the Castros. Now that it's pretty much acknowledged that state supported terrorism is an Islamic concept, the image of the old socialist guerrillas skulking through the jungle wearing surplus American fatigues seems pretty harmless.


Credit where credit is due.

Nicely written.
 
Considering Russia relieved them of 90% of their debt recently, and their warships have been seen in dock there in the last year, well you tell me where their alliances lie.
 
Cuba can walk from Russia whenever it wants if the USA takes its side as an ally. What dream world do you inhabit?
 
every embargo has done harm to our country and has had nominal impact on the embargoed country since they turn to country that refuse to embargo them.

granted they have to sell at reduced cost, helping the other countries more, but still, decades of shitting on Cuba made little difference.
 
It's even more important that the U.S. encourages capitalist prosperity in Cuba before the old Russian drunks can convince them that the fall of the USSR had nothing to do with the socialist economy.
Cuba can walk from Russia whenever it wants if the USA takes its side as an ally. What dream world do you inhabit?
What else do we have? Is it a good idea to continue to punish Cuba just because the Kennedy's thought it was half a century ago? I'm not saying we should support them with taxpayer dollars like we support half a dozen crooked regimes in the Mid-East. All we have to do is import some cigars and see how it goes.
 
Without the USSR propping them up, they are not much of a threat

We can buddy up with Vetnam and China but not Cuba

Except for the expats in Miami, nobody cares anymore
 
Considering Russia relieved them of 90% of their debt recently, and their warships have been seen in dock there in the last year, well you tell me where their alliances lie.

They certainly have no reason to be allies with us.
 
Probably not nearly as well as from American tourist dollars, do you think?

True statement of the day, this from RW: "Except for the expats in Miami, nobody cares anymore."

We shall see. Wonder how much Russia would profit in Cuban tourist dollars...
Cuba can walk from Russia whenever it wants if the USA takes its side as an ally. What dream world do you inhabit?
 
I don't often agree with Barry Hussein's policies but I agree in this case that it's time we at least tried to normalize relations with the quirky socialist country just 90 miles from our borders. Americans can travel pretty much anywhere in the world if they want to risk it but they can't travel to Cuba without permission. You can buy Cuban cigars in Canada but not the U.S. because the Kennedys were mad at the Castros. Now that it's pretty much acknowledged that state supported terrorism is an Islamic concept, the image of the old socialist guerrillas skulking through the jungle wearing surplus American fatigues seems pretty harmless.

Mostly I agree with you- I have always thought there was something distinctly un-American about telling our government telling us that we are not allowed to visit Cuba.

However- if you don't think that Cuba didn't sponsor terrorism or you think that 'state sponsored' terrorism is unique to Islam- well then you just are ignorant of history.
 
Cuba is probably culturally frozen in the 1950's since the Revolution ended with the pompous idiot becoming supreme ruler. It's probably a good source for classic cars though since the Cubanos had to keep what they had running since around 1959. The only thing Cuba has that the U.S. might need is cigars and maybe sugar. If the Cubans put the gambling casinos back on line it might be Batista redoux.
 
Not only has it not a been a threat since 1991, but the more open we are with them, the more economically assimilated they will become.
 

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