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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Even if they have a bad economic policy, isn't engagement probably the better strategy? Look at Cuba. For all our efforts to isolate Castro, he's still. Maybe trade with Cuba over the years would have done more to bring him down.
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I agree with you that our Cuba policy has been stupid. We should not isolate them. If we had engaged them Castro would have been overthrown a long time ago. What I meant was that certain regimes we should not try and overthrow the regime. The authoritarian government that is pulling a country out of poverty should be left alone. But with a government that is diminishing the standard of living its people, should be undermined at every opportunity. And we should try and overthrow the regime. Uganda has an authoritarian regime right now, but they have a great economic policy (a rare thing in Africa) so they should be left alone. Zimbabwe has a kleptocracy that just stole an election. We should do everything in our power to undermine that regime.
