Reply #27: The embargo covers US citizens and US Businesses....... [View All]

.... from trading with Cuba, not Europe, so your original point makes no sense. There is plenty of equipment available from the rest of the world.

You are the one dealing in symptoms and not causes, constantly shifting the blame for Cuba's ills from one place to another. They dont have the equipment they need because of a backward ideology. 45 years of totalitarian rule by the Castro-led Communist regime is the root cause of all the problems. If Cuba had a modern liberal democracy, the influx of capital and investment would greatly improve the Cuban peoples standard of living and make Cuba the jewel of the Carribean. It can still offer free health care to citizens after it democratizes. A vibrant economy and free health care aren't mutually exclusive. Healthcare doesn't have to come at the expense of political freedom, as the Communists would have you believe.

Even if it needed something specifically from the U.S., the Communist regime is so inept it can't smuggle in the small amount of equipment needed to save it's dear leader? How can it claim to have the expertise to run a country then ( it clearly doesn't). One of the root arguments of Communism during the cold war was that Communist regimes would support each other and eventually crush the West. Thats where Castro firmly placed his bets and now you want to whine and bitch and place all the blame on the U.S.? Why doesn't he reach out to a fellow Marxist dictator from another supposed worker's paradise? Maybe Kim Jong Il can help.

(Like I said before in #23 I agree with lifting the embargo for the sake of the Cuban people, but Castro is not the one with the moral authority to level blame at the U.S. If he wont step down to help solve the problem he created, there is only one other way out, easier for him that it be of natural causes then what he really deserves.)