Changing Of The Guard?

I've never understood the outrage that my government has shown for Cuba over the last half century. I swear, it's almost pathological. You can't get any politician of either party to suggest that maybe we should have diplomatic relations with a country only 90 miles from Florida. Is it possible there is some anti-Castro lobby that has pictures of every government official doing the nasty?

It makes absolutely no sense to me that we can have an embassy in Hanoi, a nation we were at war with for over 10 years, a nation that was going to cause all of Asia to fall to communism, but we refuse to have an embassy in Havana.

Never mind that Castro was pro-American before we shit on him. He wasn't going to be pro-American business. Never mind that Batista was a ruthless dictator who fucked over the Cuban people. That's kind of the way we do things. We'll get into bed with some pretty shady characters as long as we have cheap bananas back home.

On the world stage, Castro is a piss ant. All of his influence is derived from the fact that we hate him so much. He's looked upon as the little kid that stood up to the schoolyard bully in most of Latin America. He's admired because of that.

I've always felt that the Castro regime would fall when the Cuban people got tired of it. Apparently they aren't tired yet. As Castro hobbles off the world stage, my hope is that new leadership will eventually take over that can help assuage the paranoid hatred of their country in Washington.

Communism is so old school. We just need to let the Cubans decide that for themselves instead of trying to force it on them. Hell, even the Chinese have started embracing capitalism. An irony, when you think about it, that the Chinese will be much more of a thorn in our side economically in the future than they ever were as a completely communist state.