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dishman · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

It seems to me that countries often act like individuals, mostly stupid as opposed to smart individuals. If a person you know holds a loaded gun to your head and tells you that he will pull the trigger if a friend who gives him a lot of money tells him to, then it will be a long time, if ever, that you will even give that person the time of day again.

I think most people who contribute to this discussion probably weren't alive in October, 1962. Fidel Castro was allowing the Soviet Union to place nuclear missiles in Cuba that could arrive in major U.S. cities before any defensive measures could be taken. It will be a very long time before any U.S. president will be allowed to forget that.

Stupid people don't forgive and forget very quickly. Have any of you held a grudge for a long time? The passing of time is the only thing that will change this, and it appears that the U.S. Senate is about getting ready to take the first steps.

I'm from the U.S. and have been to Cuba. I didn't get caught, but more people are getting hefty fines these days for circumventing the law. Let's hope that modern politicians will forgive and forget now that the global circumstances have changed so dramatically.

Regards to everyone.

Zed · Joined: 20 Jan 2003 Location: Shakedown Street

And yet Russia and Turkey don't seem to harboring this kind of hostility toward each other despite a rather similar situation.

Tiger Beer · Joined: 07 Feb 2003

This is one of the things thats really annoyed me in our post-communism era. Does it really make any difference what system Cuba uses? Its been 40 years since the missle crisis.. and it was moreso a Russia iniated iniative as well. Those times or long gone. So what they use a communist system. Just let them in and lets get back to business.

Actually the U.S. Senate and many other groups have brought up the issue of Cuba over and over.. but George W. Bush is adamantly opposed to it and vetoed the last time it came up (very recently). Doesn't make any sense to me however.. except that Bush has always struck me as 'me (or us) against the world' kind of guy.

Alias · Joined: 24 Jan 2003

Ironic that the US has a better relationship with Vietnam and China. Two countries that they have actually been at war with in the last 50 years.