Posted on 03/21/2016 3:30:09 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
First, in many ways, the presidents initiative to normalize relations with Cuba isnt so much ending their isolation as ending ours. Cuba has enjoyed good and growing relations with our neighbors across the hemisphere for years. In recent years, those countries have threatened to exclude the U.S. from hemispheric meetings if we continued to demand that Cubas exclusion. We have sought to isolate Cuba for over 50 years; we ended up isolating ourselves.
Second, for many across the world, Cuba, not the U.S., has been on the right side of history. Cuba stood with Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress while the U.S. was supporting the apartheid government and labeling Mandela a terrorist. When South Africa invaded Angola in the mid-1970s to block the independence movement there, it was Cuba, not the U.S. that sent troops to force South Africas withdrawal. One of the first visits Mandela made after he was freed was to Havana to thank Fidel Castro for his support, hailing the Cuban revolution as a source of inspiration to all freedom-loving peoples.
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Welcome to Cuba, Mr. Obama! We've thrown some more dissidents in jail just for you.
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