Normalizing Relations With Cuba

It's About Time!

NYT: Obama Announces U.S. and Cuba Will Resume Relations -- "The United States will restore full diplomatic relations with Cuba and open an embassy in Havana for the first time in more than a half-century... In a deal negotiated during 18 months of secret talks hosted largely by Canada and encouraged by Pope Francis, who hosted a final meeting at the Vatican, Mr. Obama and President Raúl Castro of Cuba agreed in a telephone call to put aside decades of hostility to find a new relationship between the United States and the island nation."

I find it really stupid that an average American citizens can travel to North Korea, Iran and other enemy nations, but will be prosecuted if they visit a beach in Cuba. How much sense does that make!

Every country in the world allows it's average citizen to go to Cuba except the United States. We've had an embargo on them since October 19th, 1960 yet they are still there. Get over it!

Cuba educates and exports more doctors then almost any other nation. They've not launched any terrorists nor threatened our shores in any way. Cuba has endured countless hurricanes in which the United States has turned a blind eye while spending billions upon billions of dollars and shed American blood in other nations in the middle east who now turn against us. Cuba isn't smuggling drugs nor cartel leaders into the United States. Exactly what has been Cuba's sin against us?

We've had almost 55 years to put an end to Cuba yet they still endure. Whatever the plan was, it isn't working. While the rest of the world has gotten over it why is it we're the only country (up to now) who can't seem to move on.

Yeah sure Fidel seized properties of Cubans who later sought refuge in the United States and still harbor strong hatred,. But he also drove out the American mobsters who once made prostitutes and show girls of the Cuban women which was once America's playground. The ugly side which we refuse to acknowledge.

Out of all the nations in the world Cuba just has to be the least threat to us. We may not like their form of government but that hasn't stopped us from trading with China and other corrupt and communist nations has it?

Time is long overdue that Cuba is treated less like an enemy and more like a nation who is not a threat to us. A nation that deserves more respect then either Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and other foreign governments have shown towards us after all that we've done for them. A nation and it's peoples which has demonstrated no hostility towards either our government nor the American people after all these decades deserves better treatment.