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Cuba officially off U.S. terror blacklist

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Washington (CNN)The United States officially removed Cuba from its list of countries that sponsor terrorism on Friday, setting the two nations up for a full renewal of diplomatic ties.President Barack Obama originally announced in April that he was recommending that Cuba be removed from the terror blacklist after a State Department review. Friday marked the expiration of a 45-day period when Congress could have blocked the move.
"The rescission of Cuba's designation as a State Sponsor of Terrorism reflects our assessment that Cuba meets the statutory criteria," the State Department said in a statement Friday.
The statement noted that the U.S. "has significant concerns and disagreements with a wide range of Cuba's policies and actions" but said these fall outside the criteria related to rescinding a state sponsor of terror designation.


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:applaud One step closer to official normalized ties! Senator Udall did say earlier this week that there will be official normalized ties in a couple weeks, and it seems that may very well be true.
 
Well good, next up - removing all those silly travel restrictions. I would like to go there with my Cuban wife and child without having to use an entirely different set of passports.
 
Well good, next up - removing all those silly travel restrictions. I would like to go there with my Cuban wife and child without having to use an entirely different set of passports.
I'd love to go, too!

And enjoy a legal Cuban smoke, while I'm at it.

(I haven't been doing cigars for years, but I'll make an exception)
 
Another Obama failure.

False, Cuba poses no threat to us now. Communism is dead and the Castro brothers aren't far away from the same fate.

Go through with the normalization.

Globalism, historically, has had a positive effect on the economies of all countries, and more importantly, the USA.

I'll cut you some slack though, you seem to be clueless about economics.
 
False, Cuba poses no threat to us now. Communism is dead and the Castro brothers aren't far away from the same fate.

Go through with the normalization.

Globalism, historically, has had a positive effect on the economies of all countries, and more importantly, the USA.

I'll cut you some slack though, you seem to be clueless about economics.

Show me a link to that positive effect.
 
And Obama officially appeases yet another dictatorship!
 
Lessee, we almost had missiles 90 miles off our coast. Now we can have ISIS 90 miles off our coast. Brilliant.

But of course if not for the biggest foreign policy blunder in a century, you wouldn't know what the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria even is!!
 
50-60 years and 10 or so US presidents have come and gone yet Castro and communism are still there. Our past embargoes and policies towards Cuba has worked so well. So let's not try anything new, let's keep going with same failed tactics and policy.

(sarcasm off)
 
Forgetting history gets you what?
About as much as lacking an understanding of the current world.

(not wanting to beat on you, but digging back to the '62 Missile Crisis to provide argumentative support for a current policy change in 2015 seemed a bit much)
 
Lessee, we almost had missiles 90 miles off our coast. Now we can have ISIS 90 miles off our coast. Brilliant.

It will be much easier for the US to know what's going on in Cuba if Cuba's borders are more open to Americans and relations are normalized then the way it is now.

That said comparing 1962 Cuba with USSR's support to today's Cuba is ridiculous.
 
It will be much easier for the US to know what's going on in Cuba if Cuba's borders are more open to Americans and relations are normalized then the way it is now.

That said comparing 1962 Cuba with USSR's support to today's Cuba is ridiculous.
We will see.
 
About as much as lacking an understanding of the current world.

(not wanting to beat on you, but digging back to the '62 Missile Crisis to provide argumentative support for a current policy change in 2015 seemed a bit much)
Missiles launched were a MAD scenario. Harboring terror groups, not so much. Take off the rose colored glasses.
 
Show me a link to that positive effect.

Better yet, just look at the United States.

Ever since we started exploiting China and Japan (commodore matthew Perry opening Japan by force and America claiming right to trade in Chinese ports after British forcefully opened China) and many other countries our economy has exploited. Had we followed an isolationist approach and tried to separate ourselves from the world economically and politically, it would have only been detrimental to our growth and the growth of the world.

I don't know what world you live in... But in all the countries in the world, the United States is the most globalist nation of them all and trades with as many nations as frequently as possible. It benefits us and it benefits other nations.

Many times throughout history of course, we have taken a militaristic globalist approach (which many see as atrocities and which I must admit can be rather tragic) where we open countries by force (mentioned before with China and Japan, there are also the banana wars).

But nevertheless, should you truly wish to have a link which proves the overall positives of globalization then...

Globalization and Economic Growth: Empirical Evidence on the Role of Complementarities
 
Lessee, we almost had missiles 90 miles off our coast. Now we can have ISIS 90 miles off our coast. Brilliant.

Sixty years ago.

What makes you think Cuba is just going to let ISIS waltz in?
 
Sixty years ago.

What makes you think Cuba is just going to let ISIS waltz in?

That's not going to happen, and he KNOWS it! This is about Obama. Think they'd have praised Bush for opening up Cuba, had he been doing anything so constructive?
 
OK so how many people here on this board are going to go to Cuba and make a donation to the Castros?
 
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