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Obviously, given the nature of the Cuba Cruising Net, we would be pretty silly not to support the end of the trade embargo with Cuba. Fidel Castro and his government will be judged by history. Whatever you think about this man and the government he controls, you have to admit that the 40-year U.S. trade embargo against Cuba has failed to accomplish its goal of regime change, while imposing decades of hardship on a population that is largely blameless and powerless.
Whenever you see something in this life that makes no sense, the reason is almost always related to either money, religion or politics. In the case of the embargo, two out three are obviously in play. Cuban exile dollars and Florida presidential politics have driven this policy exclusively since the fall of the Soviet Union. Since that fateful day in 1991, no one could honestly assert that Cuba somehow threatens U.S. security.
Most recently, the Bush administration has taken America’s longstanding failed policy toward Cuba to its illogical extreme. It has managed to build a wall around Cuba that is 10 miles high but only an eighth of an inch thick. Such a structure, thinly built of sheer nonsense, surely must shatter and fall, and soon.
Besides, doesn’t America have bigger fish to fry right now?
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