Cuba removed from terrorist list

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Well done, President Obama.

[samsingh]

1. well done

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. I will never understand why we didn't try to co-opt Fidel or Ho...

I will never understand why we didn't try to co-opt Fidel or Ho, the latter of whom embraced our Declaration Of Independence. We are tacit allies with Viet Nam now as they see us as a bulwark against China.

[Mrdie]

12. Easy

Ho Chi Minh wanted an independent Vietnam. The USA wanted a Vietnam firmly under American control. The Vietnam America wanted existed in the South with its rampant corruption and military regimes, whereas the Vietnam the average Vietnamese wanted existed in the North.

Likewise Castro wanted an independent Cuba. He was willing to work with the USA, but the USA said no. Castro either had to give up the economic changes he promised to Cubans, or incur a fallout in US-Cuban relations. He chose the latter.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

27. After WWII it was, and still is US policy to promote Capitalism....

Part of that was to portray Communism as out and out EVIL, like something from SATAN.

All that talk of responsibility to your fellow man and greed being a "bad" thing was too "Jesus" for the rich so they twisted it around.

[MineralMan]

3. About time.

Let's move to normal relations with Cuba. I can see no reason not to do that.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

4. So many great thing President Obama has done. I would like to see him get more credit./NT

[MineralMan]

7. Those who are paying attention know his accomplishments.

I think many of them have been quite remarkable, especially given the Congress he's had to deal with. I believe he will be remembered as one of our great Presidents.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

10. I read that Joe Biden really chafes at the fact that Obama isn't getting as much credit...

I read that Joe Biden really chafes at the fact that Obama isn't getting as much credit as he deserves.

[MineralMan]

11. That wouldn't surprise me at all.

I believe that after his second term, we'll begin to see people recognizing those accomplishments, even those who have attacked him during his presidency. I hope so, anyhow.

[Jefferson23]

5. Excellent.

That gif thingie you have is cool, btw.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

8. Thank you./NT

[NCTraveler]

6. Better than well done.

Absolutely great. With a win in 2016, we can build of this momentum. All of our current candidates would continue to move forward with positive results.

[MineralMan]

9. Exactly.

All of the Democratic candidates for President will help to carry the progress made during Obama's presidency into the future and expand on it. I'll be proud to cast my vote for the Democratic nominee in 2016.

[awoke_in_2003]

13. Thanks, Obama.

[kenfrequed]

14. Good news

And about bloody time.

The US has actually committed more terrorism AGAINST Cuba than they have ever done to us.

[KamaAina]

15. Why was it ever on that list?

[99th_Monkey]

17. Fidel is a commie

That's all you need to know.

[99th_Monkey]

16. Does that mean we can now ADD Saudi Arabia & Pakistan? -nt-

[lonestarnot]

18. Woohoo, Now when can I visit?

[geardaddy]

19. Can we add Ted Cruz and his nutty father

instead?

[Politicub]

20. Another win for the Obama admin and the American people!

K&R!

[RedSpartan]

21. Smoke 'em if you got 'em!

[KansDem]

24. I'll have what he's having!

When I visited a friend in Zurich during the early 1980s, I visited a couple of tobacco stores and asked, Bitte, haben sie cigarren aus cuba? The answer was Jawohl. Naturlich!, and I was shown the store's selection.

I got the impression that the Swiss tobacco shop owners were used to that question from many Amerikaner.

[KansDem]

22. It's about time...

Don't know why it was ever on the list in the first place.

[MisterP]

26. because revolutions happened: Kirkpatrick said no peasant could do a revolution on

their own because they're inert and malnourished; thus and therefore, someone else had to be behind it

remember, these people are all Birchers and we were lucky we weren't nuked 1983-4

[malaise]

23. Cuba should never have been on that list

If memory serves me right, it was the Cubana aircraft that was bombed by Gerald Ford and Poppy Bush's CIA in 1976.

[MadDAsHell]

25. Yes sir. nt