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Starks posted...

At some point, people just need to get over Cuba.

The embargo and hatred for the island nation is anachronistic. There are much worse offenders of human rights that we have normalized relationships with.

The reason there is so much focused hate on Cuba is twofold:

1) Because it's so close to our American shores

2) Because despite having problems and being far from perfect... it's a successful communist experiment that has managed to survive despite being isolated and embargoed like they were North Korea.

I'm not a big Cuba cheerleader or anything, but right now - for any example of violence or human rights abuses perpetrated by Cuba against it's people, the United States has historically done far worse not just to it's own people, but oh say... South and Central American nations also. We have to hold everyone to the same standards if we're going to use specific events to disqualify a country's right to exist.