Embargo on Cuba is Ineffective, says GOP Senator

From the moral point of view, the late Pope John Paul II declared  the U.S. embargo against Cuba to be “deplorable.”  Today, from the foreign policy point of view, Senator Richard Lugar, the ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, labeled the embargo “ineffective.”  Not only has the embargo had diasterous effects on the lives of millions of poor and needy Cubans, it has failed to realize the very end which its defenders cite as justifying it, namely, the conjuring up of democratic values in Cuba.