Ninety miles in fifty years.

Ever since my childhood in the 50’s, our nation has had a bone up its ass over Cuba. There are many who feel that Cuba, if not the country, then the concept of the policies led to John Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas.) Cuba. 90-miles off our cost. Cuba – once the vacation Mecca for the jet set on the East Coast, the gaming industry’s golden calf, That Cuba was closed down. Locked down. Shut off from America.

Thank goodness for Mexico and Canada. They at least left small portals open for people to see into the island nation. And what we saw, we didn’t always like Castro was an ass to his people. His “revolution” was a sham. It was a dictatorship for he and his buddies. Che’ would have hated what he did to the homeland.

But we’ve propped up far worse. We have had diplomatic relations with uglier regimes. We have traded with out right enemies. So why is Cuba such a thorn in our side?  Because they whipped our ass on the beaches of the Bay of Pigs.  Little ole Cuba embarrassed the big mean CIA and the US Army and Navy. And we have never gotten over that.

That was 50 years ago.  Give it up. Time to move on. Time to have diplomatic relations — time to have free trade — time to have tourism — time to have two countries 90 miles apart to come together again. I mean think of the cars we could sell there.

If you are one of the ones siding with Marco Rubio in Congress about Obama being a traitor over this, ask yourself this question — did Vietnam cause a domino affect in Asia? Did East Germany corrupt all of Western Europe?  Did Saddam Hussein conspire with Al Qaida in plotting our overthrow?  The answer to these and hundreds of other CIA lies is NO.

NO.  Look at the answer. NO…none of those things that we were scared into believing happened.  What did happen is that our support to regimes like the Saudi’s and the Mubarak in Egypt, as well as dozens of other dictators, have proven to be ineffectual in delivering human rights to the people of these puppet states. Again, the Cia has duped us. Now they are trying to tell America that the move to open Cuba is bad for us. They are working Congress to try and stop this “madness” as one of them said on a talk show last night.

Madness.  The definition of madness is doing something and it failing and then do it over and over and over again expecting different results.  That is the history of the US record toward Cuba.  President Obama is correct.  It is time for a change. It is time we look at Cuba differently.

The cold war is over.  It is time to warm our relations with Cuba. Let’s go have a rum and Coke (made with Cuban sugar) and smoke a Cuban stogie on pristine beaches. And let’s shut the CIA down until they can get on the same page as the rest of us.