Flashermac Posted July 27, 2007 Report Share Posted July 27, 2007 I didn't say the US gummint supported Fidel. But a lot of private groups did. I remember pro-Fidel groups collecting fund in California when I was a kid. The govmt didn't try to stop them. I personallly see little sense in the trade embargo, but it is US domestic politics. (Lots of anti-Castro Cuban refugees in the US these days. Suicide for politicans to suggest lifting it.) Even so, the embargo only applies to US businesses. The rest of the world is free to trade with Cuba - and does. Puerto Rico is a self governing "commonwealth". It is not a state, any more than American Samoa or Guam. Most Puerto Ricans seem to like it that way, whether you do or not. They elect their own government and get special trade benefits with the US. The statehood movement is small, the independence movement even smaller. Puerto Ricans have not been subject to US military conscription either. Those who served in Vietnam etc were all volunteers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faustian Posted July 27, 2007 Report Share Posted July 27, 2007 It's got nothing to do with democracy...the US deals with China constantly, that's a non-democratic socialist/communist state, with the worst human rights record of any nation on earth...then there's Saudi Arabia etc etc... It's about power, control and money. What the US doesn't control or have at an advatageous position, it bullies. End of. Any other arguments are just rubbish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dean Posted July 27, 2007 Report Share Posted July 27, 2007 Puerto Ricans receive muchmore money back fromthe U.S. government than it pays in taxes (I assume that they like this). Until the fall of the Soviet Union, Cuba received massive amounts of aid from Russia, which propped up the Cuban ecomomy. I didn't see massive famine in Cuba in the 90's. Cuba was also very nice to send their finest citizens in boatloads to American shores in the 80's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest lazyphil Posted July 27, 2007 Report Share Posted July 27, 2007 up with america down with commies and islamists!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted July 27, 2007 Report Share Posted July 27, 2007 It's got nothing to do with democracy...the US deals with China constantly, that's a non-democratic socialist/communist state, with the worst human rights record of any nation on earth...then there's Saudi Arabia etc etc... It's about power, control and money. What the US doesn't control or have at an advatageous position, it bullies. End of. Any other arguments are just rubbish. So by your logic, the US controls or has the PRC under its thumb. Yeah, right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fidel Posted July 27, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 27, 2007 Phil, considering the "special relationship" between the US and the UK, your attitude is not surprising. An interesting product of this relationship was the removal of the people of Diego Garcia, so that the US could turn it into a platform from which to launch its crusades against those with whom it disagrees (so far mostly filthy, subhuman, cigarette smoking, violence loving, woman beating, camel shagging, rag-head Arabs: AKA human beings). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted July 27, 2007 Report Share Posted July 27, 2007 Something I hadn't realised: "As of 2003, the U.S. Census Bureau estimates that there are more people of Puerto Rican birth or ancestry living in the United States than in Puerto Rico itself." Wikipedia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fidel Posted July 27, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 27, 2007 Perhaps they moved there so they could vote? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted July 27, 2007 Report Share Posted July 27, 2007 I think it has something to do with money. But what do I know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fidel Posted July 27, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 27, 2007 Ok, to sum up. Islamists & Commies good; USA bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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