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USA foreign policy

Question:

<erinspf1…@hotmail.com> wrote in message

news:1107206495.387077.129350@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com… > Are you Russian, Vietnamese or Korean? How do you know they are > grateful? Are they supporting the U.S.’s current foreign policy??? The > U.S. gets involved when it provides a benefit for them. Communists > didn’t turn Cuba into crap, America did.

Cuba was overthrown by the Communists and America stopped most or all of the trade.  it’s a vacation paradise, and others still visit it like Canadians. i’d suggest you read less Usenet and read more history. >Historically the country was > abused by U.S. mobsters, gamblers, and drug addicts, and now SYSCO food > products won’t even sell to Cuba.

duh!  it’s called embargos. What for?? How grateful do you think > Iraqis are as they watch their families and soldiers die right before > their eyes? The current U.S. foreign policy is "do as Bush sees fit." > The U.S. government obviously has no regard for the rest of the world > or the United Nations, which has been left powerless.

there are a lot of people who would say the UN has always been powerless. m.

Response:

>Historically the country was > abused by U.S. mobsters, gamblers, and >drug addicts, and now SYSCO food > products won’t even sell to Cuba. What for??

i can’t have a conversation with someone who doesn’t even understand what a trade embargo is.  there are plenty of places for mindless conjecture about the evils of America, but this is not the time or the place.  i’d suggest you and Daniel Urtiz get together and make a blog.  but i refuse to debate with someone who believes revisionist history without thinking for himself. m. (proud American)

Response:

What a stupidly low blow. Attack my opinions, but don’t attack me as a human being. Of course I know what a trade embargo is, but I don’t believe that the embargo currently benefits anyone. The U.S. could make money by selling goods and sevices to Cuba and maybe the quality of life would improve for the people who live there. Why is the U.S. still holding a grudge? Does this country really feel threatened by Castro? Cuba wasn’t simply overthrown by Communists. You make it sound like over half the population didn’t support Castro in the 1960s. Some of his visions are viable, it’s just the implementation does not work very well. People besides Canadians still visit Cuba. It’d be nice if Cuban-Americans were allowed to visit their families. Capitalist America would love to make money off flights to Cuba. But some rich, uptight white guy says these people are only allowed to visit every few years and can only send certain amounts of money to their loved ones. What does Bush care? Let them do whatever they want with their money. I will have to agree with your point that the U.N. has probably always been powerless.

Response:

There is a distinct difference between Europe and the USA. Europe can be seen as a power with a knife while the USA can be seen as a supper power with a machine gun. Suppose you are in the woods and run into a grizzly. Europe would think it better to solve the problem peacefully while the USA won’t be impressed by the grizzly and massacre the bear if neccessary. Hence the foreign policy of USA explained.

Response:

heh, now i get it. — http://drenka.ibelgique.com/ "Berty" <adamskiraspu…@yahoo.com> a

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