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Date Posted: 16:53:47 03/22/09 Sun
Author: Bob
Subject: Re: What a coincidence!
In reply to: Indy! 's message, "What a coincidence!" on 18:08:29 03/17/09 Tue

>The USA's "prosperity" (using the term loosely) has
>permitted Cuba to live as
>Marxists/socialists/communists/pick your own misnomer
>for far too long as well. :)
I assume that it's just fine with you that a communist dictatorship is the USA's #1 creditor, as well as flooding the US with shoddy and too often, dangerous merchandise.

In fact, since 70% Walmart's products are "Made In China," the company really should fly the flag of the PRC over the main entrance of its stores.

Cuba's economic survival has nothing to do with the US and its stupid embargo, but instead Cuba's dealings with countries with which it trades, such as the use of its competent and well-trained medical personnel in exchange for their commodities or manufactured goods.

I assume that you've forgotten, conveniently, that Communist China sent "volunteers" to fight American, allied and ROK forces in the Korean War and later was a conduit for Soviet supplies to the North Vietnamese. It sends military equipment to the Sudanese in exchange for Sudanese oil. You have heard about Darfur, correct?

Really, you seem to have no knowledge or appreciation of American corporate mentality. If profits can be made, doing business with a barbarous government is no obstacle. Witness a US oil company, Chevron, operating in Myanmar.
In the early 1920s, one of George W. Bush's great grand fathers was refurbishing the petroleum infrastructure around Baku in Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan was then one of the new USSR's constituent republics.

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