Well, I never believed that it would happen in my lifetime but now Barak Obama has done it. I am very happy that we will now start being at peace with these people. We may not like their government, but we have held the people of Cuba hostage for way too long.
And for those who are angry about this, let's remember that the US had no problem supporting Fulgencio Batista for years-and-years. Batista was an evil and repressive dictator, but he was a friend of Capitalism. Led by Fidel Castro, the Cuban people rebelled against this repression, but Castro was a Communist. So there it all is --- America's age old hysteria about Communism vs. Capitalism. How many people have suffered on the horns of this dilemma?
When we listen to those Miami Cuban exiles rant about Obama making peace with the Castros, we need to remember that they are "Cuban exiles" because they were friends of Batista. Yes, he was a "great leader" --- a friend of mine in Berkeley in the late '50s left Cuba after the Batista regime mailed her brother's head in a box to his mother. That's the kind of guy we supported down there. But now we bawl and complain about Castro's human rights violations.
Some day I will figure out what America really is.
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