According to White House materials, the new policy will establish diplomatic relations with Cuba, expand travel opportunities to and from the island, make it easier for those in the United States to send money to people in Cuba, and create opportunities for limited financial transactions between the countries, among other things.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
About time. America\u2019s\u00a0Cuba policy has been been an utter failure for longer than I\u2019ve been alive.<\/p>\n
Some will no doubt try to get political traction by decrying this change as a \u201cbetrayal,\u201d but I\u2019m not sure that criticizing the president for an insufficient commitment to abject failure and fecklessness is really a winning argument. A losing policy should never be a winning argument.<\/p>\n
After\u00a0more than half a century of failure, it\u2019s time to try something else.<\/p>\n
Plus, we need the pitching.<\/p>\n
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