Another cold war relic on the ash heap
by digby
The American flag was hoisted Friday over the U.S. Embassy in Cuba for the first time in more than half a century, marking the end of a Cold War-era diplomatic freeze between two countries 90 miles apart.
“We are gathered here because our leaders made a courageous decision to stop being prisoners of history,” Secretary of State John Kerry declared. He is the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit the communist island since World War II.
“My friends, it doesn’t take a GPS to realize that the road of mutual isolation and estrangement that the United States and Cuba were traveling is not the right one and that the time has come for us to move in a more promising direction,” Kerry said. “In the United States, that means recognizing that U.S. policy is not the anvil on which Cuba’s future will be forged.”
It only took 25 years after the Berlin Wall came down, but who’s counting?
It’s pathetic that this nonsense carried on for such a long time but when rich exiles want their ill-gotten property back, the US government is not going to thwart them. It’s what we’re all about.
Now, if they want to give Guantanamo back to them, I think that would be a useful trade …
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