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Originally Posted by John Wilkes Booth
yea.. but that's a useless strategy if you're trying to get people to comply with human rights... we tried the same strategy with saddam and guess what? dicatators will sooner starve their people than obey a foreign power to go against their own geopolitical self interest
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Yes, but now you're changing subjects. Free trade with Cuba would benefit the US. It's mostly on moral (and public image) grounds that we uphold the embargo.
I make no argument of its efficacy. Obama had started to loosen up the embargo a bit, but many are against it on moral grounds (I. E. It would undermine American values to trade with a regime that abuses it's own people).