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[MADem]

32. Well, Cuba isn't Costco, though I sort of take your point.

Costco is doing fine, they are making good profits, their outfit is well run, and they aren't operating with a bubblegum and baling wire business plan.

And technically, the "US" isn't Wal-Mart, either. We do have responsible businesses in this nation. Be nice if we had more, but they do exist. Wal-Mart is Wal-Mart--the individuals who run a global entity that does have an inordinate focus on the bottom line to the exclusion of the public welfare at times.

I think the US doesn't know what to do about Cuba. As I've tried to express, I think there is something we just don't know. Damned if I know what it is, though, with any degree of certainty. For all we know, it might not be "the obvious," but something they tried and failed to pull off, that remains deep in the archives for the time being.

It's silly that they continue to be so estranged--they're our closest neighbors, after Canada and Mexico. Our histories have been intertwined for centuries, and this Hatfield-McCoy nonsense is well past its sell-by date.