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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe "LIBERAL" Washington Post weighs in on Cuba.....
Obama gives the Castro regime in Cuba an undeserved bailouthttp://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-obama-administration-extends-the-castro-regime-in-cuba-a-bailout-it-doesnt-deserve/2014/12/17/a25a15d4-860c-11e4-9534-f79a23c40e6c_story.html
vi5
(13,305 posts)My sense of history on the Cuba issue is admittedly sorely lacking.
But why have we kept an embargo and non-normalized relations with Cuba while practically falling all over ourselves doing business with China in every possible way?
I mean communism? Both. Human Rights violations? Both. So what am I missing.
Or is the answer pretty much just straight forward hypocricy?
pkdu
(3,977 posts)Said last night....thatsn no longer true .
A small majority of alls Cuban Americans now support normailzation...and a huge majority of younger ones do.
yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)China can. Any questions?
potone
(1,701 posts)The Electoral College. Florida, and especially Miami, has a very large Cuban exile community that is extremely anti-Castro, and that punishes any politician who even dares to suggest that we should normalize relations with Cuba. But that is changing as a younger generation of Cuban-Americans is more open to the idea. Our policy on Cuba is a Cold War relic that has not served any good purpose for many years. It is long overdue to change it.
Algernon Moncrieff
(5,790 posts)...especially the dwindling population of those that came over after the Revolution. However, younger Cuban- Americans have different concerns.
sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)also really enjoys the pretty much open borders policy that allows anyone that makes land a legal immigrant.
Algernon Moncrieff
(5,790 posts)Ask yourselves these questions:
1) We've had the embargo in place for fifty years now? Has it done anything to hasten the end of the Castro regime?
2) Saudi Arabia is a monarchy; it treats women as second class citizens; it has a horrid human rights record; Saudi nationals have been linked to funding ISIS and 9-11; it is intolerant of all religions other than Islam; and it would not let our troops openly practice Christianity, even when they were there to defend their nation. Are you saying we should discontinue diplomatic relations and support for Saudi Arabia?
3) Are the Castro brothers getting any younger?
4) How is MFN trading status for China not an undeserved bailout?
5) Do we have the right to lecture any nation on human rights? #Gitmo #ICan'tBreathe #Ferguson #OscarGrant #TortureReport
Get back to me and let me know.
Cha
(297,304 posts)Just a snip//
"All of that changed over the past 10 years. The 2013 Pew survey showed that the Republican advantage among Cuban-Americans had dwindled to 3 percentage points, 47 to 44. The Florida exit poll in 2012 showed that Mr. Obama won the Cuban-American vote, 49 to 47 percent. Last month, the exit polling showed that Cuban-American voters supported the Democrat Charlie Crist, 50 to 46 percent, though he lost the governors race."
MOre
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/18/upshot/why-the-cuba-issue-no-longer-cuts-against-democrats-in-florida.html?abt=0002&abg=1
still_one
(92,219 posts)Have been so right about everything, WMDs in Iraq, is just one example of one of their most glaring binders.
marmar
(77,081 posts)..... nobody's called it liberal in a long time
blm
(113,065 posts)Every now and then it shows a flash of common sense, but, more often than not, they earn their news business nickname for being a hub for CIA - Spook Central.
Watch what they do. Also the USAID role in Cuba which is front an center today raises some embarrassing questions about those glorious Arab Spring uprisings including Egypt's.