@Brandon9000,
Quote:With Cuba, the combination of being a Communist dictatorship, being an accessory to the pointing of nuclear missiles at us right off our shores, executing political prisoners, etc. makes them a government I don't like.
You've ignored your hypocrisy. And added more. The US doesn't own "off our shores", though many of you think you do. What of all the missiles right off Russia's borders that are, to this day, still there?
"executing political prisoners", you say? Right in this thread I provide a source that described how the CIA, with substantial and direct help from US embassies and US presidents provided to the Indonesians kill lists of "political prisoners". That same thing has happened in Nicaragua, Guatemala, Brazil, Chile, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, El Salvador, Panama, Ecuador, Angola, whichever country the US has invaded.
In this same thread I provided a source that Mame commented on reading that discussed numerous examples of how often the US has engaged in this practice. It really is not a stretch to say that the US modernized it and made it more ruthless and vicious.
Would you like to read more on this, Brandon?
Quote:I'm also not thrilled that a government I dislike a lot is very close
Imagine then, if you will, empathetic fellow that you are, how some 400 to ??? million Latin and South American people, the ones still alive anyway after a century of US brutality, must feel.
Quote:It is sufficient for me to approve of an embargo. Are there other governments I dislike as much that we don't embargo? Sure, but I don't face the choice of embargoing every country in the world I dislike or none. Embargoing several but not all is fine with me.
You can, of course, see how your personal likes and dislikes shouldn't be translated into allowing your government, or any government, to rape, torture and murder people and steal their wealth by either direct occupation or by supporting a US compliant dictator.
Why would you be so concerned about the dictatorship in Cuba when the US has had dictators in all Latin and South American countries? The US supported dictators didn't supply free education, free medical care, a caring loving society, all the things that the Castro dictatorship has supplied at great personal risk to himself.
How could anyone in their right mind [excuse me,Mame] find it surprising that Castro and the Cuban people have had to maintain strict controls on their political system when the very country that had long subjugated them, brutalized them, stole from them, stood right at their doorstep, clamoring to do the same thing to them again.
Really, no, I really mean it - really think about it. The US and people like you, Brandon, talk a good game about freedom and all that crap, but yet the US and people like you, Brandon, have never given this precious gift to any people or country.
The US, with its might, by allowing this embargo to continue for the number of years it has, by trying to force, and actually forcing other countries to follow suit, has committed one of its most egregious war crimes. Now if it was just an embargo, evil as it is, that would be one thing. But the actions against Cuba, by the US, over the last 50 years are precisely the terrorist actions that the US decries.
And for what reason? US national security. Yup, the US has advanced that facetious notion umpteen thousand times.
"President Kennedy warned the Mexican ambassador that Cuba was very dangerous and a threat to security during the Cuban Missile Crisis era. The Mexican ambassador's told President Kennedy that "If we publicly declare that Cuba is a threat to our security, forty million Mexicans will die laughing".
But how many millions of Americans have bought this outlandish notion in order to punish a tiny little neighbor of the US?