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Drop Cuba Embargo

LNR strongly supports (as pronounced in earlier articles in 2008) dropping the embargo against Cuba. It's an old policy which has long outlived its usefulness, including its ability to garner Cuban-American votes in Florida for elections. LNR believes that different types of engagement policies- i.e. spanning from "constructive engagement" that Reagan used with apartheid South Africa, to economic engagement with Pinochet's Chile which helped them reform from an authoritarian economic backwater to a modern democracy with a booming open economy, are the only logical approaches. Even recent engagements with North Korea and Iran are more active than American policy towards Cuba.

Opening relations and trading is recognized as a proven method of helping to “democratize” authoritarian regimes, as was done with China and Vietnam with extremely positive results. Continued alienation and embargo of Cuba is providing a safe haven for Russia and Venezuela to propagate anti-American policy in the Western Hemisphere as well as physical platforms for enemy policies, economics, drug trade and militaries.

废除古巴禁运政策
LNR完全支持废除古巴禁运政策。虽然它曾经在弗罗里达州选举中赢得了美籍古巴人的选票，但是这项政策早已完成了它的使命，应该被废止了。LNR相信各种类型的经济关系——也就是：从里根总统用过的对南美的“种族隔离政策”到曾经帮助智利由闭塞的独裁主义经济走向繁荣开放的现代民主经济的皮诺切特经济关系。甚至最近与朝鲜和爱尔兰的关系也比与古巴的关系更加亲近。
开放性的关系和贸易被认为是使独裁政策民主化的行之有效的方法。中国和越南都曾经取得了非常积极的结果。
对古巴持续的疏远和禁运是美国为了防止俄国和委内瑞拉反美政策在西半球的渗透而自我提供的一个安全的天堂，同时也是一个敌对政策，经济，毒品和军火贩卖的物质平台。



UK TELEGRAPH
Radovan Karadzic 'was protected by UK'
Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader who has been indicted for genocide and war crimes, was able to avoid capture for 13 years because he received protection from London, a former Hague Tribunal official has claimed.

By Alex Todorovich in Belgrade
Last Updated: 12:23AM BST 11 Aug 2008

Nato troops maintain peace in Banja Luka, some 200 km north of Sarajevo in 1997 Photo: AP
James Luko, a former United Nations political affairs officer in Bosnia and a Hague Tribunal investigator, told a Belgrade newspaper that Gen Angus Ramsay, the former commander of British peace¬keepers in Bosnia, was ordered by superiors in London to leave Karadzic alone just minutes before British troops prepared to capture him in August 1997.

Mr Luko, who spent several years in Belgrade before resigning in 2005, claimed he was one of three people present when Gen Ramsay entered a room at British Army headquarters in Banja Luka moments after speaking to London. Karadzic’s convoy, monitored from an Awacs plane, was visible on a large screen in the room.
“We are not police, we are soldiers, and therefore this is not our responsibility. The police force of Republika Srpska must arrest Karadzic. International troops may help afterwards, if there is unrest in Banja Luka”, Gen Ramsay allegedly said.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Defence said: “We have no knowledge of this alleged incident and we would not comment on intelligence matters. The UK has been fully committed from the outset to bringing to justice indicted war criminals from the former Yugoslavia.”

A report in the same newspaper last week claimed that Karadzic was living under US protection until the CIA caught him breaking an agreement to stay out of politics.
In his first appearance before The Hague Tribunal, Karadzic claimed that Richard Holbrooke, the former assistant secretary of state, had guaranteed him immunity if he withdrew from public life. Mr Holbrooke denied any such deal.