My central point was unaddressed: The suffering of the Cubans is entirely the responsiblity of Castro.
Cuba is full of resorts built around the embargo.
Food and other goods are sent there...but Castro keeps Cuba so broke, they can buy little.
Castro has never seriously tried to seek the lifting of the embargo. He knows the outcome for him if Cubans are given access to the broader world: the end of his reign.
But this whole thread came out of the shameful action of the ALA in failing to support the ideas it claims are important: people freely exchanging information and written material, and then in even more shamefully hiding behind the US Patriot Act to avoid dealing with Castro's utter contempt for the ideas the ALA lays claim to so poorly but so loudly.
Ed
Current Events » in reply to No, I'm not.
Well yes, you are.
The whole thread (20 posts)
- American Library Assn members claim that their dissent is being crushed
- re: Quotes from your article
- The treatment of Castro proves that the left only hates tyrants with poor media presence.
- Careful...