Obama is
visiting Cuba. Good for him. The problem with Cuba was never Cuba
itself. The problem with Cuba had been
the Soviet Union, which is dead. When
the Soviet Union was dedicated to the expansion of its communist empire across
the globe, Cuba was a big problem for the United States. It was a forward outpost of the USSR on America’s
doorstep. It’s not that Cuba was a
threat, but rather that the USSR was a threat.
Now, Cuba is
just an impoverished communist nation of no real import. But it is filled with some wonderful baseball
players. Aging Cuban-Americans who have
good reason to hate Castro, and good reason to hate Communism, notwithstanding, opening
relations with Cuba is just a fine thing
to do, as far as I can tell.
Right wingers still think Cuba is a problem, I guess, but it makes no sense anymore. Just old ideology that is blind to reality.
