At fucking last. Obama announces intention to resume full diplomatic relations between the US and Cuba. The dismantling of the economic blockade is presumably part of this development.
"Neither the Cuban or American people have been well served" by the decades long policy rooted in events that took place before most Americans were born, Obama said in a White House address. "These 50 years have shown that isolation has not worked," he added. "It's time for a new approach."
The Republican dominated Congress is of course planning to block any such initiative. Boehner calls it "the latest in a series of mindless concessions to dictators", neatly ignoring US diplomatic and economic relations with such paragons of democracy and freedom as Saudi Arabia in the process.
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There's no clearer indication of Obama's Communist sympathies than this act.
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Yet another anti-communist rant in 6 ... 5 ... 4 ... 3 ...
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. - Stephen J. Gould
Once it starts out competing the US, like China does, then the shit will hit the fan.
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Seth wrote:There's no clearer indication of Obama's Communist sympathies than this act.
Cool.
Merkins can now visit Cuba, and make up their own minds.
If Communism is so terrible, they can see for themselves.
Why are you worried?
Because removing the embargo empowers the communists to perpetuate the evil they commit on their own people. The purpose of the embargo is to strangle the regime as much as possible without actually going to war against them, which is what we should do.
Opening Cuba to economic investment means that Communism will only be enhanced, not diminished.
I hope Congress tells Obama to shove it up his ass.
"Seth is Grandmaster Zen Troll who trains his victims to troll themselves every time they think of him" Robert_S
"All that is required for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." Edmund Burke
"Those who support denying anyone the right to keep and bear arms for personal defense are fully complicit in every crime that might have been prevented had the victim been effectively armed." Seth
Hermit wrote:Yet another anti-communist rant in 6 ... 5 ... 4 ... 3 ...
And justifiably so. Communism is inherently evil an needs to be extirpated from the planet.
"Seth is Grandmaster Zen Troll who trains his victims to troll themselves every time they think of him" Robert_S
"All that is required for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." Edmund Burke
"Those who support denying anyone the right to keep and bear arms for personal defense are fully complicit in every crime that might have been prevented had the victim been effectively armed." Seth
Seth wrote:There's no clearer indication of Obama's Communist sympathies than this act.
Cool.
Merkins can now visit Cuba, and make up their own minds.
If Communism is so terrible, they can see for themselves.
Why are you worried?
Because removing the embargo empowers the communists to perpetuate the evil they commit on their own people. The purpose of the embargo is to strangle the regime as much as possible without actually going to war against them, which is what we should do.
Opening Cuba to economic investment means that Communism will only be enhanced, not diminished.
I hope Congress tells Obama to shove it up his ass.
Dang. Here I thought the Salafists hated us due to the insidious nature of decadent Western Culture and its corrosive effect on the Body of Islam?
Now look here at what just landed in our lap - a fantastic opportunity to corrode a whole new culture and economic ideology!
Think of all the new markets opening up in Cuba. I would have thought a Libertarian would respect another man's choice to make an honest business trading with Cubans without the goddamn Big Brother government gettin' in the way?