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<blockquote data-quote="soonerwings" data-source="post: 1884807" data-attributes="member: 8035"><p>You know, I understand the principle of the thing. The government of Cuba essentially stole billions of dollars from American taxpayers by nationalizing businesses. That being said, I don't think an embargo is an effective means of encouraging democracy/capitalism when all you're doing is hurting the average Cuban citizen. Furthermore, it isn't the cold war so why do we even care what economic/governmental system another sovereign nation chooses? Why isn't this something that can be negotiated? How about something along the lines of "you give us the $6 billion (estimated) that you stole and we'll start doing business like civilized neighbors again"? Seems to me that this could be an "everyone wins" rather than an "everyone loses" type of situation if either of the two sides would stop being stubborn.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soonerwings, post: 1884807, member: 8035"] You know, I understand the principle of the thing. The government of Cuba essentially stole billions of dollars from American taxpayers by nationalizing businesses. That being said, I don't think an embargo is an effective means of encouraging democracy/capitalism when all you're doing is hurting the average Cuban citizen. Furthermore, it isn't the cold war so why do we even care what economic/governmental system another sovereign nation chooses? Why isn't this something that can be negotiated? How about something along the lines of "you give us the $6 billion (estimated) that you stole and we'll start doing business like civilized neighbors again"? Seems to me that this could be an "everyone wins" rather than an "everyone loses" type of situation if either of the two sides would stop being stubborn. [/QUOTE]
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