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F*O*A*D

On 8/25/14 9:43 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 25 Aug 2014 20:01:04 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

The support for Cuba during the Batista regimes was to help out the big
US corporations that had corrupted the island and its government.

What government?
Cuba has been controlled by military juntas and communist strong men,
glued together with sugar for the last century.
It was also a playground for rich and not so rich Americans but that
brought a lot of money onto the island.

We owe our current stalemate there to JFK. It is part of the Kennedy
legacy that just won't go away
The best way to promote capitalism over communism is to give them
some, not to embargo it away from them.
Part of the problem is also that US Sugar, tourism interests and the
Cuban ex-pats have a strangle hold on both parties in Congress.

Steve Wynn and Bill Marriott could turn that economy around in a year
if we would let them. As long as the Castros were allowed in the count
room, they would have gone along.

Gad. Your sense of history and politics is off another planet. Our
current "stalemate" over Cuba has been our foreign policy for the last
50 years. Blaming it on Kennedy is naive. Our current problems with Iraq
are also the result of our foreign policy, but for a longer time.