• We cannot keep doing the same thing and expect a different result. It does not serve America’s interests, or the Cuban people, to try to push Cuba toward collapse. We know from hard-learned experience that it is better to encourage and support reform than to impose policies that will render a country a failed state. We should not allow U.S. sanctions to add to the burden of …show more content…
“A second reason interpretation argues that the United States went to war for humanitarian reasons, that is, to free the Cubans from the horrors of Spanish polices and to give the Cubans democratic institutions. That this initial impulse resulted within ten months in an American protectorate over Cuba and Puerto Rico, annexation of the Philippines, and American participation in quarrels on the main lands of Asia itself, is explained as accidental, or more familiarly, as done in a moment of “aberration” on the part of American policy- makers (pg. 398 para 1).”
• President Franklin D. Roosevelt & Briand Kellogg Peace Pact: “Those who cherish their freedom and recognize and respect the equal right of their neighbors to be free and live in peace must work together for the triumph of law and moral principles in order that peace, justice and confidence may prevail in the world. There must be recognition of the fact that national morality is as vital as private morality….”(pg.