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Given the serious crises in the Mideast, Eastern Europe and West Africa, the notion that ending the embargo on Cuba would be seen as a "significant foreign poli
by 7Figures2Commas 12y ago
Given the serious crises in the Mideast, Eastern Europe and West Africa, the notion that ending the embargo on Cuba would be seen as a "significant foreign policy success" is wishful, naive thinking on the part of the editorial board.
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- IkmoIkmo 12y agoI don't see how the one follows from the other. You're saying because there are big issues, solving what you seem to deem as a relatively small issue, therefore can't be deemed a significant success? If so, I'd invite you to look into the 200 year history of US-Cuban relations, as well as the extent to which the embargo affects virtually everything for a population of 11 million people. It's extremely pervasive. A change here would be quite a major foreign policy event. To get a sense of this, the UN general assembly condemned it for every single year without exception for decades now, with votes usually showing 180 or so in favor of condemning and 3 or so against (the US, Israel and something politically insignificant like Micronesia)