Wednesday, April 08 2009
By Dale McFeatters,
Scripps Howard News Service
Congress is considering lifting the ban on travel by Americans to Cuba, which it should because Americans should be free to travel where they like without being harassed by their own government.
The Obama administration is moving toward lifting limits on how often Cuban Americans can visit and how much money they can send family members on the island, which is good because those limits were simply spiteful.
And there is growing support for easing the trade embargo on Cuba, which only makes sense because the embargo is closing in on 50 years of proven failure. It was counterproductive in that Fidel Castro regularly invoked it to excuse his economic mismanagement.
We already allow the sale of certain agricultural products to Cuba, and there's no reason farmers should be favored over other exporters. If Cuba wants to send back cigars and rum and people think that consuming them would be supporting a dictatorship, don't drink the rum or smoke the cigars.
Editorial: Rethinking Cuba continues...
