Question for Cappies?

[colombiano]

Why and on what moral ground can you justify the US position towards Cuba?
Why in the Hell do you turn away Aid from Cuba and or Venezuela?
Cuban doctors say politics block Katrina aid offer (http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050909/ts_nm/cuba_dc_1)

Yet the US openly accepts the AID that Vietnam pledges $100,000 in Hurricane Katrina aid (http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050909/ts_nm/vietnam_dc_1)
Furthermore the US annually trade Millions of dollars in goods and services with Vietnam.
SOURCE (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5520.html)

OH, the Hypocrisy.... Little Ole Cuba basically gives Uncle Sam the finger , while
47,410 Americans Die fighting in Vietnam . SOURCE (http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0004615.html)
You trade with Vietnam and accept their aid , yet Cuba is still under US attack after more than 40 years.
Care to explain?

[MoscowFarewell]

Yes, could the Cappies explain? More so, could the American government and its supporters explain?

[Publius]

Originally posted by [email protected] 10 2005, 04:53 AM



Why and on what moral ground can you justify the US position towards Cuba?

I don't really think they can; I don't support the embargo, at least anymore.



Why in the Hell do you turn away Aid from Cuba and or Venezuela?

Politicks.




Yet the US openly accepts the AID that
Furthermore the US annually trade Millions of dollars in goods and services with Vietnam.

Again, politics.




OH, the Hypocrisy.... Little Ole Cuba basically gives Uncle Sam the finger , while
47,410 Americans Die fighting in Vietnam .
You trade with Vietnam and accept their aid , yet Cuba is still under US attack after more than 40 years.
Care to explain?

Vietnam is quickly turning into a market economy. We try to support those.

[rachstev]

Does there have to be an explaination? As the U.S. is merely rejecting something, and not performing an affirmative act.

(Don't know what a cappie is, but there's a comment)

[Elect Marx]

Originally posted by [email protected] 13 2005, 11:57 AM
Does there have to be an explaination? As the U.S. is merely rejecting something, and not performing an affirmative act.
Not if you are into the fascist assertion of authority I suppose, but then what about your freedom rhetoric?


(Don't know what a cappie is, but there's a comment)

Cappie is to Capitalist, as Commie is to Communist.

[Hegemonicretribution]

Capitalists wouldn't support the embargo on Cuba anymore than socialists so perhaps asking pro-americans would be better.

Publius is right, politics is exactly why the US turned down the aid. The real question should perhaps be why Cuba offered the aid. I assume the answer would be the same, we aren't dealing with emotions or human loss here, it is cold and straight foward. What happens when Cuba has a national disaster?

[SweatyJerry]

Real reason? Cuban voters in florida that want a hard line on Castro. That's the ONLY reason.

[allixpeeke]

Why and on what moral ground can you justify the US position towards Cuba? The U.S.’s position towards Cuba is an anti-Capitalist position.

True Capitalists believe in Free Trade.

The embargo against Cuba is about as anti-Free Trade as you can get.
You trade with Vietnam and accept their aid , yet Cuba is still under US attack after more than 40 years.
Care to explain?The explanation is easy. Anti-Capitalists (e.g. Bush) support restrictions on trade, and thus support the embargo on Cuba.

Politicians tend to be hypocrites. That’s nothing new.
Capitalists wouldn't support the embargo on Cuba anymore than socialists so perhaps asking pro-americans would be better.I’m pro-Americans. I’m pro-humans-in-general. I’m not pro-American Government. The American government is authoritarian and anti-Capitalist.

[norwegian commie]

Capitalists wouldn't support the embargo on Cuba anymore than socialists so perhaps asking pro-americans would be better.
the embargo was and is an attempt to starve socialism out from cuba.
the embargo is costing cuba lots of money.
then the US uses the poor conditions in cuba in their propaganda against socialism and communism.

[Freedom Works]

Libertarian anarcho-capitalists would not support any such idiocy as embargos.