Reply #58: Stop using weasel words like "engage". Speak clear English, please. [View All]

[Kagemusha]

Obama's said before - and has been much criticized for doing so, in fact - that under Obama, the US will speak with Cuba and will not treat speech alone as a carrot.

He never promised lifting the trade embargo or normalizing relations. The US, too, is a sovereign nation, and can decide what relations or what trade it desires to have with another sovereign country, and please, don't bother trying to convince anyone otherwise.

Your use of "engage" is trying to make it sound like Obama will not talk to them before they open up to democracy. That is the Hillary Clinton position, not the Barack Obama position.