who wishes the U.S. should be like Cuba ,Communism?
370491
is free education worth all our freedoms?\ni mean seriously. who would want to be a governemnt slave? the concept of communism is that everyone gets the same amount of money and they all have to have the same number of children and they all have to be exactly alike. america isnt my favorite country but its better then cuba.
630678
Why does everything ....have to benefit AMERICA? Shouldn't we be looking at "what's good or better for the Cuban people" FIRST. Aren't THEY the ones - first on the list? Isn't the main reason America lost Cuba,- because they were looking after their own interests, and lineing their own pockets with profits from tourism, casinos, gambling and huge sugar production profits.......WHILE THE PEOPLE SLOWLY STARVED IN POVERTY. Haven't we learned anything from the past? It's time to STOP this  greedy - "WHAT'S IN IT FOR ME ATTITUDE." Isn't this the same reason America broke away from Britain? Britain was taking all the resources and huge profits back to Britain and leaving  Americans with taxes and very little to pay for them with?
1044966
Hmm. I say communism is the best way to go. Either that or I'd fly to Iraq for a better chance at living.
458097
Holidays of communist’s socialists and invaders of America,\nCannot celebrate now, waiting to dance upon their graves!
932735
Sad old man.  I think once Fidel is gone, things between the USA and Cuba will get better.
591556
More than anything else, I think it started out of embarassment. When Fidel Castro came out of nowhere to lead his people against a very corrupt regieme led by Bautista, it was like he was a Latino John Kennedy. We welcomed him here in the US. The problem was, of course, that much of the corruption was tied up with the American Mafia and gambling cartels. They did not take very well to being kicked out of Cuba. \n\nThen there was Fidel's Socialist leanings. He was a man of the people, right? He and Che Gueverra saw themselves as liberators. The revolution would not be confined to just Cuba but might well be exported to all the corrupt North American dominated regimes. The US could not stomach that. Trade started getting "difficult."\n\nFidel appealed to a nation very interested in establishing a Western Hemisphere base of influence, the Soviet Union. This was the era of a very hot "Cold War" with Nikita Khruchov taking off his shoe and banging it on the desk in the UN threatening the US with "We will bury you!" The Soviet Union even went so far as to send guided missiles to Cuba. John Kennedy was President at the time. It seemed as though the US and the Soviet Union were going to nuclear war over Cuba. The Soviets withdrew their missiles.\n\nFidel stayed on. The US took in Cubano refugees. Some of them launched attempts to topple Fidel's government. The CIA may have even tried to assassinate him.  There were rumors that Cuba was behind the JFK assassination plot.\n\nSo, Cuba has remained only 80 miles off the Florida shores. And the US still has a base there where the prisoners from the latest war are kept. Strange, huh? Yet, we still do not trade with them.
1130779
WHY DO???huh?  I'm American and I'm not afraid of Russia.   Vladamir Putin is a commie hell bent on making Russia a commie country again, but that's been proven time and time again that communism/socialism just doesn't work.  Sooo, really, there is nothing to be afraid of, I don't know WHY you think this.
437669
The Republicans are kissing the Communists butts everyday now over Americans. That's because the Republicans are Communist too, it's a no brainer. Wal-Mart is Communist, RCA, Thompson Electronics, Microsoft, hell it's starting to become endless. They parade them around America, and call Communism Capitalism. How can it be Capitalism when they are not even Americans. The real word is called Monopolization with no free or fair trade, and that isn't Capitalism, it's Communism. So "RED" is for the Communists that they really are. I heard this from somebody else in here. The Conservatives choose Communism over Americans; because America can and would produce any thing that we need. America doesn't need anyone to produce our products for us. They choose to be Communist for greed, over America.
765390
everyone wants to be american...dont they?
1047368
The American people have never been thrilled with the long-term concept of empire.\n\nThe neocons will burn in hell.
784892
Not sure what communists you are referring to... the only options are Cuba, China and N.Korea.\n\nOf those, I don't know of any S.American takeovers in the works.\n\nMaybe you are referring to some non-communists movements in those areas... btw, there are quite a few.\n\nWhile we have been focusing on Islamic nations and obsessed with muslim extremists, the rest of the world has been very busy committing some unspeakable atrocities.
340939
Good, for the leaders, bad for everyone else.  It's a BIG lie.  It has never worked.  Communist countries have all had to keep people from leaving.  If they had been allowed to leave they all would have.  Communist countries have mostly failed.  They couldn't feed their own people.  China is getting away from Communism, Cuba is barely hanging on.
1072582
Cuba is a communist nation. the people get treated right some Cubans want to overthrow the president Fidel Castro because he has been in power for over 43years. They cant have free elections and they are not allowed to talk bad about their president.
169098
partly, yes. Cuba, as you know is a commie country who hates America (or at least Fidel Castro does). I think bush is too paranoid...
967743
There are many communist (China, N Korea, Cuba) and socialist countries (Sweden, Russia, France) where your ideas and assistance would be appreciated. Forgive me if I don't rush out in a lather to follow in your wake.
681344
He was Fidel Castro's right hand man.  He was a communist and was instrumental in Cuba severing ties with the US.
871870
There isn't, nor ever has been, a Communist country - only feeble attempts by Communist politicians and governments.  But while Capitalism still has a foothold, Communism could never occur.\n\nThe US trade embargo on Cuba exists because the US government under various Presidents don't like Cuba's regime under Fidel Castro and are waiting for him to die.\n\nChina no longer suffers any US embargo because they have embraced Capitalism with fervour and, if you compare whats going on in Gauntanamo Bay (which is on Cuban soil without permission from the Cuban government) with Chinas record on Human Rights, the US has a close ally in terms of treating people badly, unfairly and cruelly.\n\nYou have asked a good question which invokes a lot of history, politics, law and economics - well done.