The US Government doesn't expect Castro to live through 2007.  How will that impact Cuba's relations with US?
818477
Instead of listening to 4 hour tirades from a megalomaniac, we'll have to listen to 4 hour tirades from his alcoholic brother. I think relations between the USa and Cuba can improve without the Beard.
98440
Guantanamo Bay was a U.S. Base when it was a U.S. territory. WHen Castro took over, he allowed the U.S. to lease it for 30 dollars a month. But as of today Castro does not take the payment.
671108
I never relized that before, I mean helping castro getting elected nearly caused WWIII in 1963 with soviet missile crisis, Giving Saddam bio weapons in the '80's causing the current war, oh and helping the Taliban fight the Soviets in the '80's as well, who knows maby the russians would have wiped them out if we didn't supply them guns and HEAT-SEEKING MISSILES i.e. the stinger rocket launcher. I think our next "friend" will be a middle eastern or latin american rebel group that comes back to bite us in the ass.
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...
457872
I think Castro has done a beautiful job of keeping America out of Cuba. The people there actually have health care, and are highly educated. I have read it was better than 90% of the people, and that is better than the United States. When Castro dies, I am sure America will do a take over most likely. We will just have to see, wont we?
487755
The great depression seemed to hit the American people a lot harder then the cuban missile crisis. American people were forced to live in shanty towns which they named 'Hoovervilles' after the president...The riff with Cuba though has still has not been sorted out completed with the US...
753020
No. Even money for the war will go on untill after 2007.
344301
go to\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba
149591
If that happens the US will pull all our funding and whatever troops that are under their peacekeeper control.\n\nWithout US support there is NO UN.  \n\nSo they can try.  I would love to get rid of that organization it has done nothing but steal, bad mouth the US and Israel, and waste our money.\n\nWe haven't done anything that we shouldn't have anyway.  Well the Bay of Pigs but that was Kennedy leaving the Cubans out to dry
529589
Cuba is ninety miles from the US.  Cuba was the only country in the western hemisphere that was communist.  Russia put missiles in Cuba directed at the US,  The wealthy Cubans got out and moved to Florida when Castro took over, became a political force.  Russia was the only other superpower that could challenge the US and in Cuba they were too close for comfort.  Remember the times -  it was early 60s.  Only two powers had nukes, Russia and the US.  School children practiced drills against nuke attacks.  They were taught to hid under school desks. Shelter were set up  and stocked by the govt in case of a nuke strike.  It was not too long after the Red scare congressional hearings and many US citizens being ruined by blacklisting.  A big difference now and then is that the US economy was strong.  Manufacturing took place in the US.  We had the natural resources to  keep the country going.  It was  around 20 years since Europe was torn apart by a World War.  It was around 20 years since the US saw what a nuke could do.  Rmemmber Japan.  Memories were fresh and not yet part of history  that few people are still alive to remember. Items made in Japan were trinkets with a low value.  We had a nice little war going called Viet Nam against the Communist.  How could we say it was OK for them to be in Cuba even though the previous system was a place of extreme wealth and extreme poor.  Corruption was common and then go to war against the same political system in Southeast Asia. War in the past  always helped the US economy. The reason that we don't don't beat the drum against China the way we did USSR is that China holds a huge chunk of the US debt now.  If they called it in the US would be bankrupt.
897194
The history of Cuba is essentially the history of the tragedy of American foreign policy since WW2.\nHistory already has absolved Castro in most parts of the world except right factions and miami dissidents in the US. His famous speech,  "History will absolve me" has become true...at a time during the Batista regime when Cuba mainly served as a gambling island and was owned by Americans, Castro led a people's revolution stating that history would absolve him. Ever since 1959, in Cuba, he has been absolved.  The entire history of Cuban politics in the past 50 years has been charaterized by anti-Americansim - his rule a defense mechanism against the greatest Empire in history. In that time, he has taken Cuba from a corrupt protectorate of the USA, from a client state of the USSR...to now, a completely independent country.  He is the leader of one of the smallest countries in the world, but is known throughout the world. He has taken Cuba from the tyranny and subjugation of the Batista regime, and brought on a people's revolution that has seen Cuba produce Nobel Prize winners, Olympic Athletes, Baseball players, Jazz musicians, doctors...taken the education and healthcare sytems from being in shambles to developing and sustaining a standard that not only erases illiteracy, but is capable of exporting to other developing countries...both in medicine and education.  \nFidel Castro has taken the Cuban people from being occupied slaves of the US and turned them into someone. An incredible achievement that not many other leaders in history can claim.\nNelson Mandela is one of Fidel Castro's closest friends...without Cuban aid and support during the 1980s apartheid...South Africa, Namibia and a host of other south african ".would not have gained independence wen they did.  But, as Harry Belafonte says, "If you don't understand this history, then you will never understand the importance of the Cuban revolution." Castro came into power and was greeted as a liberator of the Cuban people - he still is. The worst crime that he commited was giving the land and resources back to the Cuban people, instead of American companies. For that, the USA tried to invade during the Bay of Pigs; after that the world narrowly escaped a nuclear crisis as Cuba aimed to defend itself with Soviet aid against another attack.  Throughout, the Trade Embargo has remained...paradoxically granting themselves of American independence, but also, being isolated from the world's largest economy. I think the better question is: Will the US ever be absolved for what it has done to Cuba and its people since its revolution, which is completely supported by its own people. If only the USA would respect the sovereign rights of other countries. Will the US ever be forgiven for Operation Peter Pan, in which the CIA and the Catholic church kidnapped over 20,000 Cuban children from their parents and flew them to the US. Will the US ever be forgiven for being hypocrites for not trading with Cuba, but with China on an unprecendented level.\nVive le Castro! Vive le revolucion!
979083
The wet feet, dry feet policy \n(sometimes called the wet-foot, dry-foot policy) \nis the name given to a consequence \nof the 1995 revision of the Cuban Adjustment Act of 1966 \nthat says, essentially, \nthat anyone who fled Cuba and got into the United States \nwould be allowed to pursue residency a year later. \n\nAfter talks with the Cuban government, \nthe Clinton administration came to an agreement with Cuba \nthat it would stop admitting people found at sea. \n\nSince then, \nin what has become known as the "wet feet, dry feet" policy, \na Cuban caught on the waters between the two nations \n(i.e., with "wet feet") \nwould summarily be sent home or to a third country. \nOne who makes it to shore ("dry feet") \ngets a chance to remain in the United States, \nand later would qualify \nfor expedited "legal permanent resident" status \nand U.S. citizenship.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet_Foot-Dry_Foot_Policy\n\n\n\n\n\n\n " Cuba is led by a dictator who has denied its citizens freedom."\n(Communist Nation)\nCubanos That ESCAPE Cuba \nAre POLITICAL REFUGEES\nNOT ILLEGAL ALIENS\n\nMexico is a democracy (Free Nation)\nTherefore, Mexicanos Do NOT Qualify For Political Asylum
1067097
We probably should end the embargo, it is the cuban exiles in this country that fight to keep it. And since they are concentrated in florida, and are an important voting bloc in a very important Presidential state, (remember 2000?), no politican is going to alienate them.\nsorry, but it probably will stay until Castro dies.
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.
952590
There is NO doubt we have taken his rule for granted.  And there is no doubt the state dept incorrectly thinks there will be a "crack in the armor".  Let's face it they haven't done a very good job on foreign policy.\n\nI believe Castro's brother Raul would be the new dictator.\n\nI actually believe we should normalize relations now to martyr Castro making his successor less powerful.
601644
I'm no expert, but most of the Cuban people seem to like American culture enough to push consensus to accept Democracy. There may be figures in the military that want to take the reigns like Castro did, so that may be a potential source of conflict. But if the US really wants to impose it's will, they can really pressure a new guy in different, more direct ways. Especially since Russia doesn't have their back anymore.
931804
lol.   we just attack anybody that doesnt follow our ways huh?  You dont agree with us you die?  We allowed Cuba to stay communist in OUR hemisphere.  This is one of the worst questions I have ever read.