re: Cuba embargo to be lifted

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I'm probably old, compared to you, I'm also a realist.

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You're a lot of things, but you're not a realist. A realist would encourage a united economy, and not one of division.

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We used China against the USSR. We were not in a hot war with China when Nixon normalized relations with them. We got something out of that deal. That's how it works.

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Oh yeah, so just because we're not getting something quite as good as that relationship, we should let one of our closest neighbor's economy be stagnant for something that happened over 50 years ago! Let's hold those old hostilities like the Hatfields and McCoys. frick repairing damaged relationships!

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Now who's being delusional.

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Certainly not me.

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It is not in the national interest to be propping up an hostile dictatorship 90 miles away from our shore.

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Hey, this may be news to you, but it's almost 2015. It's not 1965. Castro is out of power and will likely be dead soon.

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Foreign relations is messy. It takes work. What we've done is make it easier for the Castros and their successors to hold on to power, and to continue to cause problems for us.

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As I said, it will be 2015 2 weeks from today. I'm very happy to awaken you from your time capsule, but things have changed.