Proud Day: Old Glory flying again over Cuba

Watching the US flag rise again in Cuba brings a redemptive bookmark on our 56 year war of hate and fear over the Cuban revolution which ended decades of US capitalist and underworld exploitation of that beleaguered island. JFK nearly blew up the world in his obsessive drive to overthrow, indeed murder Fidel Castro, for seeking end to our domination going all the way back to our murderous, criminal war against Spain in1898, that acquired Cuba as a prize for Uncle Sam to plunder, first as a possession, extending long into its conditional independence. Substituting one tyrant for another was no bargain.

If we didn't want Russia to put nukes on our doorstep, what were we putting nukes on Russia's doorstep in Turkey. Then to save face, we forced Russia to pretend we weren't trading Cuban nukes for Turkish nukes. Let Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio slug it out for the elderly and dwindling Cuban vote in Florida based on fear and loathing of the Castro regime. The rest of the world left them behind decades ago. Can't wait to see all those pre Castro American car classics still tooling around Havana before being scarfed up by collectors free to do business in Cuba, and American car makers making a mint selling their 21st century versions.

Another day, another transformational bit of progress from the greatest president in my lifetime (FDR included).