The fact is that while the U.S. government, after 60 years, continues to impose brutal economic warfare on the Cuban people, it also continues to wage psychological warfare against Americans, propagandizing us to believe this is somehow in our interest.
I had almost 300 responses to my Cuba post.
The most common reply was: "Because communism."
Okay. Let's accept that as true. Communism is a failed economic system. Cuba's government is repressive. Castro was a dictator.
Now answer the question: Why does punishing ordinary Cubans with a 67-year embargo serve American interests?
If the goal is freedom for the Cuban people, starvation is a strange way to free them.
If the goal is regime change, it hasn't worked in 67 years.
If the goal is to help Cubans, lifting the embargo costs us nothing and gives them everything.
The communism answer explains why we don't like Cuba. It doesn't explain the embargo.
Try again.