My Cuban vacation

Most Americans think part of Obama's campaign of change should involve new policies toward Cuba

In a recent poll by worldpublicopinion.org, 70 percent of Americans say they favor ending the US ban on travel to Cuba and removing the economic embargo which has been in place since March 1958. Cuba was once one of the top Caribbean travel destinations by US tourists. It was a Hollywood getaway and was featured in numerous songs and movies.

President Barack Obama, set to leave on his first trip to Latin America this week with stops in Mexico and at the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad-Tobago, is expected to address US policy toward Cuba at his first summit with Latin leaders.

America's problems with Cuba stem from it being a Communist ally of the Soviet Union. It was the reason for the embargo, the reason for the Bay of Pigs and the reason for the Cuban Missile Crisis. But the Soviet Union is gone, and the the U.S. is considered an ally of Russia. Additionally, The only Communist world power, China, owns more than a third of all U.S. debt and is our biggest trading partner.

To me this is the definition of hypocrisy. The United States of America refuses to trade with one country because of its communist government and its actions, but welcomes trade with another country despite its communist government and actions.

Fidel Castro is 82 and the cold war ended 20 years ago. Let it go America, let it go.

Cold War part 2?

China has asked the U.S. to stop flying surveilence missions off China's southern coast in response to an incident this weekend between an Navy survey vessel and a five Chinese ships. U.S. news organizations have largely ignored the story in favor of time spent talking about earmarks and pork barrel projects signed by Obama in the last week.

The U.S. claims the ship was in international waters and China claims the ship violated Chinese soverignty.

Anyone else just have flashback to the end of Top Gun?

"We both agreed that we should work to ensure that such incidents do not happen again in the future," Hillary Clinton told reporters after a meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang.

The U.S. has worked hard in recent years to make an ally out of Communist China due in large part because China currently owns over one-third of all U.S. debt.