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Originally Posted by Bewolf
Yeah, but the Embargo we are talking about now just applies to trade inbetween Cuba and the US, it's not a complete cut off from the rest of the world like at the times of the crisis. Insofar I always wondered about the usefulness of this embargo anyways, it beeing more a principle then a problem solving or pratical measure. Disliking Castro and detaining communism is more then understandable in my book, but one should have thought it has to go hand in hand with a plan for future action based on possible outcomes.
This, however, has never been done, at least not in a proportion that I heared about it, yet. It appears to be a measure taken out of the circumstances back then and just carried over because nobody ever really thought about what to do next. To just sit it out until Castro dies and communism hopefully with him does not make the impression of a seriously thought out plan to bring this conflict to an end. At latest when the USSR collapsed this thought process could have started.
Insofar I do not see any harm in opening up to Cuba, really. It's a place in dire need of modernisation and investments, it's a win win, really. And if things go wrong after all, for some reason, the US surely is large and powerful enough to respond in kind before Cuba becomes dangerous in whatever regard.
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You pretty much covered it. The one sentence you wrote concerning possible future outcome, etc. Sometimes I wonder if a few Presidents look beyond the 4 years of their tenure. Those that don't only look to th end of their term as the only future concerning them. Although this is hard to examine as JFK did not finish his 4 years. Who knows what JFK would have done in his last year as president or another 4 more years if elected and he was not assassinated. Only conjecture. At this point, you are correct, embargos for Cuba are useless.