Cuba

[Bengalzona]

(03-24-2016, 05:47 PM)fredtoast Wrote: I think Cuba was treated a little differently than other dictatorship around the world we partner with because there are so many Cuban refugees here in the United States.  It is easy for our President to to be seen as buddy buddy with the oppressive House of Saud because there are not hundreds of thousands of refugees from Saudi Arabia here telling first hand stories of their family members being imprisoned and killed just for political reasons.

True. The Cuban exiles/refugees (primarily in Florida) have had far more political influence over the years than their numbers would generally warrant.

And I don't want to make Cuba sound like some paradise wrongly accused of misdeeds. They suck to high hell. They limit their own peoples rights and have sent tens of thousands of troops to Angola over the years to support the communist guerillas there. They just haven't been trying to pick a fight with us over the years (which is a wise choice for them).