Harry Krause wrote:

We normalized relations with Germany, Italy, and Japan after WW II. We
normalized relations with Vietnam, the Sov Union and the PRC. There's no
reason to maintain Cuba on the anathema list.

Yup! You normalised relations with the Soviet Union and did to the communist empire
what no H-bomb, economic sanctions or propaganda could do. It no longer exists and
we call them now: Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Lithuania, Yougoslavia, Poland, etc...
You normalised relations with China and now, private entrepreneurship (do I dare
say capitalism?) is legal there and growing quite rapidly. Why this wouldn't work
with Cuba? My opinion is that the best weapon against Castro is to bring there the
western way of of life is thru tourism and trade.

As a Canadian, I effectively won't go to the US, fearing whatever some paranoid
custom officer can imagine on a bad hair day, this, even if I never went to Cuba
and won't probably ever go! Canada normalised its relations with the USSR and PRC
long before the US. We have normal relations with Cuba too and I think it would be
a great idea for you guys (and gals) to follow us on this one too!

Hoping, some day, you can bring back home the best rum in the world! ;-)

Jean Dufour
Montreal,Qc