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To: KLP who wrote (97175)	5/2/2003 5:11:08 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Are those governments communist? I think the point was that just as many people are trying to flee from non-communist countries in that region as from Communist one, which suggests that the desire of the people to go elsewhere cannot be used to suggest that Communism is a bad thing. There are plenty of other reasons why it's a bad thing, but in Cuba's case, the fact that people want to leave doesn't make much of an argument. You notice that Haiti is much closer to Cuba than the US is, but not too many Cubans flee there. I've no sympathy at all with Communism, I just don't think that a supportable argument. I also think that the degree to which the Reagan administration helped to bring about the collapse of the Soviet Union is hugely exaggerated, but that's another discussion.