From: Steve Hix NVALID
Date: 12/28/2003 10:29 PM Central Standard Time
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In article ,
Richard Periut wrote:

Steve Hix wrote:
In article ,
Richard Periut wrote:
Steve Hix wrote:
Richard Periut wrote:
Linda Terrell wrote:

So let me get this straight; in order to clear a country of a
despotism,
you have to try to annihilate at least two cities full of thousands
of
civilians?

I'm really intrigued.

It ended the war.

Yeah, and the cost of human lives and the suffering?

Significantly less than the alternatives of blockade or invasion.

Note Periut's dancing as he dodges the issue:

Well if you consider Cuba, it can freely trade with the European Union,
just as any other country blockaded by another country.

Not much of a blockade, then, is it?

Have someone explain the difference between a blockade and a boycott
sometime.

Do you spend much time figuring out how to dodge and issue, or is it a
natural talent on your part?

Oh, your post speaks volumes of wisdom and knowledge.

Noting, once again, that you dodge the issue.

The boycott of Cuba by the U.S. is *nothing* like the proposed blockage
of Japan that was considered as one of the options of ending the war in
the Pacific.

Have someone explain to you, that Castro considers it both a blockade
and a boycott.

A boycott it clearly is; the U.S. officially bars U.S. entities from
doing business with Cuba.

As a blockade, it pretty much misses the mark, since just about anyone
else on earth can do business with Cuba.

And Cuba's economy is *still* in the tank.


A blockade is an act of war. Why do you think JFK called his act a quarantine?"

Dan, U. S. Air Force, retired