This article very nicely illustrates how much of politics is built on bullshit.
It completely destroys the argument that a Cuban cable is “a threat to national security”.
A recommended read, both for the rebuttal as the technical details.
It completely destroys the argument that a Cuban cable is “a threat to national security”.
A recommended read, both for the rebuttal as the technical details.
They haven't changed due to the US embargo for decades. So what is the point?
This is another example of a small group of loud people that hold sway over a national policy.
When we support most dictators in the world, but embargo Cuba, it sounds less like a moral stance, and more like hypocrisy.
The actual, reason for the embargo, of course, is not a moral stance, or a hypocritical one. It is simply courting Cuban voters[1] in Florida.
In Canada, this kind of phenomenon is called 'America sneezes, we catch a cold.'
[1] Now that Florida's fully fallen off the spectrum of reasonable politics, those voters may well become less relevant for both parties.
Where was the US embargo when Saudi dictatorship murdered and dismembered a journalist on foreign soil?
Sounds like you k ow nothing of history, US currently supports about 20 dictators around the world.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Jamal_Khash...
The reason we still have an embargo on Cuba is because pro-embargo Cuban-American refugees are a huge minority of a swing state, and sending a child away from his abusive father to Cuba literally cost the Democrats the 2000 election (incidentally leading to at least 2 of those 3 invasions). Arguably, a stupid technicality like that is worse than if it was a Masada-type situation, but what can you do
Precedent, I assume. If you start an embargo or other sanctions, and then drop it when the entity shows that they're not going to back down, you're sending a signal to others: show that you're not going to back down and we'll drop the sanctions because what's the point? And that will dull the blade of the threat.
It's similar to negotiating with hostage takers and terrorists. Once you do it, you encourage everyone to take hostages in order to "negotiate" whatever they want done.
Israel: https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-only-country-at-un-to-j...