Cuba - Our New Friend

I haven't always agreed with President Obama's decisions on foreign policy. I don't like his actions in the Middle East, and I think he should have ended the war in Afghanistan long ago. But his decision to start the process of normalizing relations with Cuba is one with which I wholeheartedly agree. Cuba poses no danger to this country, and there's no reason to treat them like an enemy.

Now the president has done some more toward becoming friends with Cuba. He has ended the U.S. objection to Cuba participating in Latin American Summits, and in fact, is expected to meet at least briefly with Raul Castro at the next one. He also is likely to very soon remove Cuba from the list of terrorist supporting nations (something else that should have been done long ago).

And while I'm on the subject of Cuba, a new poll has been done of that country's citizens by Bendixen & Amandi for Univision. It gives us an interesting look at the island nation we have spurned for so long. Here are some of the things that survey showed: