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...whom Castro accused of being in the service of the U.S. What's behind the clampdown? Those close to Castro's inner circle say he feels insulted - and unusually nervous. With his economy in endless decline, he hoped the U.S. was set to relax its 40-year-old economic embargo against his communist regime. But the Bush Administration has managed to delay the U.S. Congress' antiembargo...
...investments? What about economic giants like G.E.? And since I am invoking the authority of the U.N., so irresponsibly flouted by the Bush Administration, why be inconsistent and not ask for a divestment from all the companies, American and otherwise, that are known to have violated the U.N.-sanctioned embargo against Iraq throughout the nineties...
...letter). But as is often the case, the new responsibilities of office meant that officials had to postpone trying to implement their most cherished to-do list. In the State Department, Powell was working on a plan for "smart sanctions" on Iraq--tightening the porous U.N. embargo while allowing more humanitarian support for innocent Iraqis. The neoconservatives weren't impressed, but in those initial months they were able to do little to develop their own strategies for ousting Saddam...
...discomfort, and perhaps even destabilize, the precarious regimes of the Ayatollah Khamenei, Kim Jong Il and--for that matter--Fidel Castro and Muammar Gaddafi? Why not just say, "We hereby grant you diplomatic recognition, whether you like it or not. We're naming an ambassador. We're lifting the embargo. We're going to let our companies sell you all sorts of cool American things like Big Macs and Hummers. This doesn't mean we approve of the way you run your country, but it's silly for us to deny that you're in charge...
...discomfort, and perhaps even destabilize, the precarious regimes of the Ayatollah Khamenei, Kim Jong Il and - for that matter - Fidel Castro and Muammar Gaddafi? Why not just say, "We hereby grant you diplomatic recognition, whether you like it or not. We're naming an ambassador. We're lifting the embargo. We're going to let our companies sell you all sorts of cool American things like Big Macs and Hummers. This doesn't mean we approve of the way you run your country, but it's silly for us to deny that you're in charge...