Exactly. I never bought that argument. They can trade with everybody else, so that embargo doesn't have much of an impact. Especially with the rise of contai

Exactly. I never bought that argument. They can trade with everybody else, so that embargo doesn't have much of an impact. Especially with the rise of containerized shipping. The US gets a lot of stuff from China and ships can get to Cuba for less than it costs to reach any city on the east coast of the US. It's their rejection of the free market that makes them unable to procure goods in the free market. It's ironic that some people want the free market to serve a system that denies its citizens access to that same exact marketplace. They don't seem to question the ideas they are repeating.