We gave away the store! Did we own the store? What did we gain in Korea? We made out like bandits in Viet nam. We are still reaping the profits in Iraq,but our fortune will be made in afganistan. Did any american citizens die in the bay of pigs?
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We gave away the store! Did we own the store? What did we gain in Korea? We made out like bandits in Viet nam. We are still reaping the profits in Iraq,but our fortune will be made in afganistan. Did any american citizens die in the bay of pigs?
Gee we did own the store. We won cuba, the phillapines, and puerto rico during the spanish american war. that as a premature exclamation, sorry! We all know about teddy roosevelt, and the rough riders. Did you know there were 3 black regiments that fought there.
[QUOTE=kygorski;540784]We gave away the store! Did we own the store? What did we gain in Korea? We made out like bandits in Viet nam. We are still reaping the profits in Iraq,but our fortune will be made in afganistan. Did any american citizens die in the bay of pigs?[/QUOTE]
It was the worst possible deal that Obama could have made. Cuba was on the ropes. All we had to do was wait 10 months to a year and cuba would have come begging for U.S. relations. The Cuban people will continue suffer now under the current deal. With the price of oil plummeting, the economies of Russia and Venezuela are crumbling. Veneuzuela is the primary supporter of Cuba's economy. Granted, the people would have suffered during the next year, but it would have been better than the perpetual suffering that this deal offers. Heck, we didn't even get a human rights agreement with them. Political prisoners fill the prisons. Under this agreement the U.S. will trade in dollars and pay their workers with the worthless peso. The American and Cuban people lost in this deal. Obama just wanted something to add to his failing presidency legacy.
As for Vietnam, Afghanistan and Korea. South Korea is a huge trading partner. South Korea has a much higher standard of living than North Korea and the citizens won't get thrown in jail for having a bible. In Iraq, the people suffered under a brutal dictator and the U.S. removed that dictator and installed a democratic government. It was up to the Iraqi's to choose their leaders and they chose corrupt ones. Obama knew it was too early to pull U.S. troops out because of the problems within the Iraqi government and the Iraqi military not being strong enough, but he did it anyhow to further his political objectives.
No Americans died in the Bay of Pigs because it was an invasion by Cuban exiles supported by the U.S. to overthrow the ruthless regime of Fidel Castro.