Ted Rall - Thursday February 18, 1999 Comic Strip Licensing and Permissions

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What we don't know can't hurt. On a recent trip to Cuba, it became immediately obvious that there was only one topic on everyone's mind... (Woman: Of course, my daughter's teeth wouldn't be falling out if the Americans weren't keeping calcium supplements from getting in.) It didn't matter whether it was a government official or a guy pimping his wife: The trade embargo is a national obsession. (Man: You Americans are the tools of extremist pro-Batista exiles in Miami- we want close relations with the northeamericanos!) Underlying the Cubans' sense of persecution, however, is a bizarre assumption: (Man 2: If the American public knew how they were starving us, they'd tell Congress to do something about the embargo.) America: so good at cruelty that we can do it in our sleep. (Television: Coming up after "when kittens get squashed by heavy objects" should we cut taxe credits?)

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