The relationship between Cuba and the United States began badly and, during the John F. Kennedy administration, became much worse. More often than not, the record shows the United States as an irrational, grasping aggressor. It is high time that we end U.S. hypocrisy toward Cuba. We can do so without condoning the Castro brothers’ murderous, totalitarian reign.
Along these lines, I fully endorse Kathleen Kennedy Townsend’s comments in her article, My Father’s Stand on Cuba Travel, in today’s Washington Post. With our current, Cold-War-era approach to Cuba, we hurt no one in the world quite so much as ourselves.
