Jim Hlavac
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We have had a trade embargo against Cuba for over 50 years. We
have engaged in economic sanctions on one level or another for
decades against all sorts of countries and groups. The government
should cease all legal prohibitions against trade with any and all
nations. However, the government should also not become involved
in helping trade with these places. Let the individual companies take
their own risk.
The country in question will always want to trade with us. It is
amazing, after all, that if Cuba considers America so horrible why
should they be so desperate to trade with us? It is also amazing to
watch the world complain about American economic hegemony and
influece in their countries and yet demand that we get economically
involved in Cuba.
But it is also true that if we opened the door to trade with Cuba,
and with Burma and North Korea and a slew of other places, we would
start them on the way to freedom and democracy. Once the people
who work with the American companies get a taste of the way
Americans think, and the wealth it creates, they will adapt to these
ideas. They will then start to tell their friends and relatives, and the
word will inexorably spread through the country. The dictator will not
be able to stop it.
Involvement serves not just the crass commercial aspects of
money making American companies. It has a multitude of other
purposes no less important. We will bring goods and services to the
people who actually need them. There is no reason on earth why
individuals in any country should be denied the right to access what
we commonly agree is necessary for modern life.
The people in these countries, woefully undereducated and
unprepared for the vagaries of democracy and entrepreneurialism
need training. Those who work with Americans will get that training
on the job. There is no way for them to escape learning a better way.
They will act as missionaries to the rest of the population. There is no
way for the country's leader to prevent his people from learning the
better way once the seed is planted.
have engaged in economic sanctions on one level or another for
decades against all sorts of countries and groups. The government
should cease all legal prohibitions against trade with any and all
nations. However, the government should also not become involved
in helping trade with these places. Let the individual companies take
their own risk.
The country in question will always want to trade with us. It is
amazing, after all, that if Cuba considers America so horrible why
should they be so desperate to trade with us? It is also amazing to
watch the world complain about American economic hegemony and
influece in their countries and yet demand that we get economically
involved in Cuba.
But it is also true that if we opened the door to trade with Cuba,
and with Burma and North Korea and a slew of other places, we would
start them on the way to freedom and democracy. Once the people
who work with the American companies get a taste of the way
Americans think, and the wealth it creates, they will adapt to these
ideas. They will then start to tell their friends and relatives, and the
word will inexorably spread through the country. The dictator will not
be able to stop it.
Involvement serves not just the crass commercial aspects of
money making American companies. It has a multitude of other
purposes no less important. We will bring goods and services to the
people who actually need them. There is no reason on earth why
individuals in any country should be denied the right to access what
we commonly agree is necessary for modern life.
The people in these countries, woefully undereducated and
unprepared for the vagaries of democracy and entrepreneurialism
need training. Those who work with Americans will get that training
on the job. There is no way for them to escape learning a better way.
They will act as missionaries to the rest of the population. There is no
way for the country's leader to prevent his people from learning the
better way once the seed is planted.