Icon Re: Cuba blockade?
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Dave Tahija (view)

Here's a quote from your post:

"This country (USA) blockades Cuba and has for decades without even one rocket being fired from Cuba upon American soil."

This is a clear conflation of the U.S. economic embargo against Cuba with the Israeli naval blockade against Gaza, plus a redefinition of "embargo" as "blockade". Conflation and redefinition of this type is a stock rhetorical tactic of the Fox network commentators and sundry other right-wing figures. In the above quote you're guilty of it too.

In my post I pointed out some of the difference between the Cuba embargo and the Gaza blockade. Bottom line: they're nowhere near the same thing, largely because the U.S. embargo is not directed at non-U.S. nationals and is not backed by military force. (By the way, I am opposed to the U.S. embargo against Cuba.)

You're entitled to your views (although I disagree with some of them) and you are most welcome to defend them by rational arguments. I just urge you to respect facts, and I mean ALL the facts, and not to muddy the waters of discourse with deliberately sloppy terminology.

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