re: Just back from 8 days in Havana, Cuba

Am I supposed to feel guilty for wanting to visit Cuba because some Cubans tortured Americans in the 60's?

Lsupimp, did you think there is no internet in Cuba?

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Am I supposed to feel guilty for wanting to visit Cuba because some Cubans tortured Americans in the 60's?

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Hell no. By all means, visit. I'll get there eventually, God willing. Just don't come back here and say things like:

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I do t really care about the government being communist. Wouldn't let that get in the way of my enjoyment of a city as beautiful as Havana. That communist government takes better care of its people better than our government ever will.

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Lou, there certainly were a few Cubans I spoke to who wanted to know about the "American Dream". They think it really exists and that everything will be wonderful once they are in the U.S. The American Dream is the U.S.'s facade

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We aren't challenging tourism to Cuba. We are challenging her white-washing of the sad history of Cuban Communism.

I want to go!

Bravo on the troll job Isabelle

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Past.is.past

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If we forget the lessons of the past we are doomed to repeat them. A Pretty simple human truth. The idea is that we learn. And that when people IDEALIZE the atrocities of the past, we rightly correct them so that these lessons aren't forgotten. Isabella doesn't acknowledge these atrocities, she actually celebrates them and criticizes the political system that has given her freedoms that Cubans never dreamed of.

Japan has become an ally after much more harsh atrocities than.cuba has ever committed

Do they not deserve a chance?

Trust but verify.....and whatnot

What are you arguing exactly? That Communism isn't that bad, and only low class rednecks worry about it?

Isabella won't answer any questions. Isabella is a willful fool, a useful idiot. Now I suspect she may also be a lovely 66 year old woman, but that does not alleviate her moral culpability if she enthusiastically defends such a monstrous system. She doesn't know what she doesn't know.She has an understandable reluctance to start down a path of education and self-examination, for fear of where it will lead. That's how Communist-apologists roll. They stick to platitudes and stay away from Truth. They literally don't know about the 100,000,000 million dead. Nor do they care. And as this thread illustrates, they demand you educate them, or "it didn't happen".

And Rouge, not sure if you know this (being from West Baton Rouge Parish and all), but the Imperialist Japanese were defeated and discredited. And Japan became the great country it became only after it repudiated it's horrible past (like Germany),and one that I spent two years of my life in, in fact. Whereas Cuba is still run by Communist totalitarians who subjugate and impoverish their people. We can simultaneously be benevolent towards the Cuban people, even as we acknowledge the horrors and depredations of their political system and totalitarian rulers. Nobody wants to punish the Cuban people, we just want them to be truly free. The sooner Castro and Communism take their rightful spot in the ash bin of history, the better.