Why do you see those two choices as the choices facing PR? What is wrong with them keeping their current status in perpetuity? Why the idea that they either have to be bound into the union as a state, or else be an independent country?
My question is why don’t they want to be a state? They have benefits of being a state and yet don’t want to be one. Why should we provide them with benefits? Why are we obligated to them in any way? I have no problem with them not being a state- but then we should take away their status. This should have been settled long ago, be a state of the U.S. or be a country on their own.