CNN CNN Newsroom With Carol Costello December 17, 2014 14:23:00
Active trade with cuba. in a sense we're losing an opportunity to have influence and contact in cuba. it is american contact commerce that is more likely than anything to have an impact because we always do bring with it concerns about human rights. we press these countries. we don't have any relations with them right now so it's very difficult. so as i say, there is an alternate strategy and theory here, more contact and more commerce will have the effect of softening the regime, 'em pempog the society. there's a limit of how much you can do with the sanctions. i doubt that president obama wi...