US business leaders assess Cuba business climate

[JackRiddler]

16. How do you stand on the U.S. attack on Cuba?

The kind of paternalistic rhetoric you employ has been used to justify many, many U.S. government interventions against other countries. We all wanted the Iraqi people to have a real choice in their future, I'm sure. Any American who said that in 2003 without qualifying that they opposed the invasion was objectively supporting the destruction of the Iraqi nation by the U.S. war of aggression.

I want the Cuban people to have a real choice in their future -- therefore I oppose the 55-year U.S. government policy of economic blockade, terrorism, sabotage, assassination, and destabilization. The U.S. should immediately end its attack on Cuba.

We're all for democracy in Cuba, ideally, as we should have been for democracy in Iraq. We're all for democracy in China, too, but that doesn't mean we'd all support U.S. attempts to commit acts of war on China.

This is a board of Americans (mostly) discussing U.S. policy. Therefore you don't get to avoid the question with pious invocations of support for Cubans, divorced from the reality: How do you stand on U.S. policy?