On 12/18/2014 11:56 AM, nestork wrote:
I believe that:

1. The US government and the US people all realize that trade sanctions
against Cuba haven't worked to bring about a change in leadership, and
probably never will.

2. The Cuban government and the Cuban people all realize that the
communist system put in place by Castro hasn't created a better life for
the Cuban people as it was intended to, and probably never will.

I expect that the communist system in Cuba will follow much the same
path as that of China where the government remains officially communist,
but the economy is purely capitalist and everyone is free to do as they
please to fill their own rice bowl with as much rice as they can.

I can see a powerful economic partnership developing between the USA and
Cuba. Cubans, getting paid $2 $US per month, can produce as high
quality goods in US owned factories as Chinese workers getting paid $20
$US per month, and I can see that shaking up the economic
interdependance that currently exists between the USA and China. I can
easily see Cuba becoming the next world manufacturing center, competing
with the likes of China and Malaysia. Only, Cuba has a much nicer
climate and much nicer beaches than China or Malaysia.







Yep, I agree.

Cuba is not a threat to us.


No one in the US has ever properly addressed North Korea
or anything in the Mid-East to any degree of satisfaction.


Two HUGE elephants in the room and now there are bound to be some
****ing and moaning about (the non-problem) Cuba.


BTW:


I've been to London a few times and got some Cuban cigars there.


I'm not a smoker but occasionally I enjoy a good cigar.

Just had to see what the big deal was. Personally I preferred Jamaican
cigars...but again...I am not a smoker so who am I to judge?