[Peace-discuss] The Cuba embargo

[C. G. Estabrook]

Ron Paul is the only business-party candidate who opposes the embargo  
on Cuba (which Obama, typically, continues to support while mewling  
about how he might not...)

>> From Fox News, 26/1 (on the Florida GOP "debate"):
>>
>> Of the four candidates, Romney, Gingrich and Rick Santorum all  
>> favor keeping the U.S. embargo on Cuba in place, as Santorum said,  
>> "until the Castros are dead."
>>
>> Ron Paul takes the complete opposite position. As he said in Monday  
>> night's debate in Tampa, he thinks anyone who supports strangling  
>> the Cuban people with the embargo is living in the Dark Ages.
>>
>> "I would do pretty much the opposite. I don't like the isolationism  
>> of not talking to people. I was drafted in 1962 at the height of  
>> the Cold War when the missiles were in Cuba. And the Cold War's  
>> over," said Paul.
>>
> Addendum: The NYTIMES today, under the headline "Candidates scramble  
> to win Hispanic votes in Florida"  was all about the Three Stooges  
> and their competition to predict the worst torments of eternal  
> damnation for Fidel. Not a word--not one--about Dr. Paul and his  
> denunciation of the embargo!