Clay Bennett for April 21, 2009

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    MaryWorth Premium Member almost 15 years ago

    Sad little Cubs fan…

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    Simon_Jester  almost 15 years ago

    Bottom line…the embargo hasn’t worked.

    It didn’t put Castro out of power, and it sure as heck didn’t stop him from trying to, ‘export the revolution abroad.’ Angola to name one example.

    Nor did it prevent Fidel from shipping all his criminals to the US during the Mariel crisis.

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    Dtroutma  almost 15 years ago

    Andy, our “principled” leaders backing Pinochet, Argentine generals, and revolutions in Nicaragua, Guatemala, Venezuela, Grenada, etc to overthrow elected governments? Normal relations just meant U.S. corporations getting whatever they wanted in the hemisphere.

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    David Riedel Premium Member almost 15 years ago

    Heaven forbid that we should have relations with despotic regimes.

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    comsymp  almost 15 years ago

    Correction, ANandy- previous presidents were men of principle; determined not to normalize international relations with and thereby endorse the COMMUNIST despot.

    They were, however, quite willing to deal with right-wing despots like Pinochet, Batista, Duvalier, Somoza, Marcos, Suharto, or the Shah of Iran.

    There was no principle in singling out Cuba, only politics.

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