The Cuban Embargo: Punishing the Children for the Sins of the Father The key to understanding the foreign policy of a nation state is understanding that state’s national interest. The key to successful foreign policy is, as Henry Kissinger stated in 1998, defining “an achievable objective”. Thus United States policy towards Cuba fails because it neglects these two key ingredients of foreign policy. The US embargo of Cuba is four decades old and no longer …showed first 75 words of 1747 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1747 total…That provision makes the new legislation basically null. The US government should fully drop legislation against the sale of food and medicine to Cuba. The US should in regards to these two items allow and endorse trade with Cuba as it does with other countries. Such a policy, while seemingly small, would benefit American businesses and help increase the health of the Cuban people and also would receive enough support to be passed through Congress.