Why does the United States fear Cuba so much? Any thoughts from Republicans?

Question

If socialism is so inherently dooomed to failure - why not let it do so on its own merits? Why has the United States embargoed the island nation for close to fifty years?

any pretense that the US has embargoed Cuba for humanitarian reasons or to promote democracy is a JOKE...

The US has backed corrupt despots that suppport their interests for YEARS..

hello?

Panama, Chile, South Korea, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Uganda, Nigeria, Zaire, Phillipines, Turkey, Cambodia, Guatemala, Pakistan, Rhodesia, Indonesia..

I could go on - but the list might take me the better part of the day..

Answer 1

Because Cuba won't be a good little country and do what it's told - ie open itself up to US multinationals to strip its wealth and assets and make itself a repository for cheap labour.

They must be stopped!

Answer 2

The US doesn't fear Cuba so much now that the Russians have taken their missiles away. The US does not embargo Cuba because of socialism...if that were the case, it would embargo all of Europe (and most of the rest of the world) as well.

It embargoes communism and communist regimes because communism is a lovely economic theory, but one which has failed every time it has been tried (except in China, but that's not true communism anymore), because it takes freedom of choice out of the hands of the people as a whole and puts it into a few isolated few at the top of the government. Since the US's policy is to allow MORE freedoms and choices to a nation's citizens, it embargoes regimes that don't.

The country is doomed to failure as is, and this fact is proven by the number of people streaming out on a daily basis. They don't like it there either, so they come to the US for a chance to vote, buy, learn, work, etc according to their own consciences, not as the government tells them to.

The US trade embargo hasn't been the death knell for Cuba. Think of all the other economies in the world that DO trade with Cuba, and yet it still sinks ever downward. Be looking for some intense partying in Miami when Fidel finally kicks it and the remaining locals take over the government from the remnants of his regime.

Also, while the US does embargo GOVERNMENTS with which it does not agree, I pretty strongly feel that it bends over backward to help the CITIZENS of said countries...granting refugee status to Cuban illegals, sending food aid to North Korea, etc. We're not as evil as you might think.

Answer 3

The question should be ;why has the U.S.A. not attacked cuba?, Iam as surprise as anyone, Cuba being a small island and all that , then again the answer might be found with Nikita Krusheved. The embargo is a shamefull way to put pressure on a goverment you dont agree with ,but looky her China , North Korea and Russia all get financial help from the taxes American people give to their goverment! What a hipocrisy! Eventually china will be the downfall of the U.S.A.1

Answer 4

The vast majority of Americans aren't afraid of Cuba. The problem is tha tyou have an extremist segment (the neo-cons/religious fundamentalists) who have made a religious tenet of hating anything the regard as socialist. Which is liable to be anything--most of themdon't even know what the deifination of socialism is.

Added to that is that you still have the remnants of the Batista supporters still hawiking their "Cuba Libre" rhetoric (which is fake--their notion of a free Cuba is they get to go back and establish a new Batista-style dictatorship)--and they still have the Republican Party convinced the are the ones who deliver the Cuban-American vote. Which isn't true anymore (if it ever was--now most of that community were born and raised in the US--they have no loyalty to the old regime).

And it's all about political gamesmanship--I don't think any of them are really stupid enough to believe that silly embargo is going to "undermine Castro's Communist regime." But such empty posturing is about all they know how to do.

But please--don't credit all Americans with such idiocy--most of us have better sense.

Answer 5

I think that might be taking it too far.... He is the President and said some strong words that should have no affect on the Domestic Affairs. But I must say, that We Democrats should have felt just as angry when a former Vice President and Presidential Nominee goes to a Saudi Arabia and says harsh words about the United States. Did not our Vice President know that such words would reberate with the Troops during War Time. I think we Democrats need to be honest with ourselves... fix our own people before we condemn others.

Answer 6

It wasn't just a democrat that started the embargo, it was THE democrat...JFK. Remember the Cuban Missle Crisis? As a result, we placed a trade embargo on Cuba until they are no longer a communist nation. We're not afraid, we are enforcing a policy set by the incident that nearly brought nuclear war on a grand scale.

Answer 7

You have really answered your own question. The U.S. has left Cuba and it's brand of socialism to stand and fall on it's own merits. Would you speak to and admonish a neighbor that in the past has positioned it's self to your demise ? I think not, assuming you remember the Russian missiles that were to be parked and pointed at the U.S.

I do agree it's time to renew our, ( U.S. ) relationship with the good people of Cuba. Dictators or not the people of Cuba are our neighbors. It's too bad they have been under the rule of Castro. The Cuban people are very important and the loss of their culture to each and everyone of us is a shame.

Answer 8

Do you really think embargoes are done through fear?

embargo (n.) A government order prohibiting the movement of merchant ships into or out of its ports.
embargo (n.) A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation.
embargo (v.) To impose an embargo on.

fear (n.) A feeling of agitation and anxiety caused by the presence or imminence of danger.
fear (v.) To be afraid or frightened of.

Once has nothing to do with the other. Bogus question with a wrong premise then.

Answer 9

I don't think it is fear so much as Castro has been thorn in Washington side for decades.
His standing up to U.S sets bad example to other countries
whose dealings with the U.S resulted in military dictatorships
working with U.S coorporate interests with the people getting the ****** end of stick.

The people that fled Cuba in the 1950's were the people that had money.
The Cuban community in Miami can be very vocal.

Answer 10

It's Cuban refugees who live in the USA, and are very active politically, who have shaped the US policy towards Cuba. And they HATE Castro, which is why they are refugees from Cuba.

Answer 11

perhaps you may want to check your history books. as it was a Democrat who started the embargos on Cuba.