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Now Is the Time to Change US Cuba Policy
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by Robert Creamer, Huffington PostFor half a century, United States policy toward Cuba has been aimed at isolating and defeating the regime. That policy has demonstrably failed. Fidel Castro and his successor Raul Castro, have outlasted presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, Bush II and almost two years of the Obama Administration.
The definition of insanity is continuing to do the same thing and expecting to get a different result. By that definition, the policy of attempting to isolate Cuba is -- to put it charitably -- daft.
This failed approach to Cuba was originally justified as part of the Cold War policy of "containment" of the Soviet Union. That policy has now outlasted the Soviet Union by two decades.
A shooting war in Vietnam in which almost 50,000 Americans were killed has come and gone. Vietnam is now a reliable U.S. trading partner and favorite tourist destination, bu
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