Those who came in the last exodus from Cuba to the United States obviously came here for what it is that our Nation has to offer. No one is arguing that. But indeed if you do not want to have any more Cuban refugees or refugees from other parts of the world then you must allow those parts of the world to have an infrastructure that keeps its people at home. American arms do not achieve that. American rhetoric. yelling Communist across the Florida Straits. does not achieve that. That is why I am delighted the Senator from Idaho brought this issue to the floor of the Senate. Procedurally or not. this is the proper moment to debate the foreign policy that has been a massive failure. which brings our part of the world to the edge of conflict every now and then. which creates the human tragedy that we have seen in the Cuban refugees. I think that certainly there is enough intelligence here and down in the executive branch of Government to create a policy that holds out a far greater hope Insofar as the people of our part of the world are concerned while at the same time ridding ourselves of the Soviet presence. I almost felt like offering a substitute resolution here which in effect would condemn the latest invasion by a rightwing regime of a territory of our good ally Great Britain.
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