There is a bill before Congress that would, among other things, lift travel restrictions to Cuba. I would like to go to Cuba. Weather's good. Cheap. Clean. Low crime rate. People are friendly. Medical costs are low. I could have some skin cancers cut off. I got a bunch and no insurance right now.
It was OK for Nixon to go to China and establish trade relations that would eventually destroy our economy. It was OK for Reagan to deal with the despised revolutionary government of Iran. First to manipulate them into keeping the embassy hostages until after the 1980 elections that would make him President and then to trade weapons for money that he would secretly use to fund Contra death squads in Nicaragua, both deeply immoral, illegal and in the first case, treasonous acts.
It's not OK for me though, to go to Cuba for a week, stay in a cheap hotel, have a daiquiri and shrimp cocktail at the Copa, eat an ice cream cone on the strand, watch the girls go by and maybe have some malignancies cut off my flaky, old hide.
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