US and Cuba establish relations

For the first time since JFK, the United States and Cuba will establish direct diplomatic relations.  If this is a good idea, time will tell but this moment was inevitable. The two countries are too close to continue ignoring each other.

Fidel Castro is no longer in office and the economic blockade we have had on the island nation basically had no effect.  Cuba does not export anything to the US and we have more than enough sugar.

This also will help improve relations with the rest of Latin America.  The Obama administration does not have a good track record there (or anywhere else it seems...) and this might help.  It might be too late for this administration but it might help the next.

George HW Bush once boasted that he wanted to be the first US president to set foot in a post-Communist Cuba.  He wasn't and I don't think Obama will have that honor.  \\

But somebody will and that day is getting closer.