Normalizing Relations with Cuba Favored by Majority of Americans

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Majority of Americans Favor Ties With Cuba, Poll Finds

By RICK GLADSTONE
FEB. 10, 2014

After more than a half-century of official United States hostility toward Cuba punctuated by a comprehensive trade embargo, a majority of Americans — and an even greater majority of Floridians, home to this country’s largest Cuban-American population — now favor normalizing relations or engaging more directly with the Cuban government, according to a nonpartisan survey.

The results of the survey, commissioned by the Atlantic Council, a prominent Washington research institution, and released on Tuesday, were described by the group as an unprecedented reflection of shifting American attitudes toward Cuba that confound some long-held assumptions, particularly about Cuban-American antipathy toward the government of Raúl Castro.

The results also come against a backdrop of increasing sentiment in Florida and elsewhere that the American economic and political isolation of Cuba, one of the most enduring elements of United States foreign policy, not only has failed to satisfy its purpose of unseating the Castro government but may even be helping to perpetuate it.

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The results also come against a backdrop of increasing sentiment in Florida and elsewhere that the American economic and political isolation of Cuba, one of the most enduring elements of United States foreign policy, not only has failed to satisfy its purpose of unseating the Castro government but may even be helping to perpetuate it.

Good to see common sense prevail among the common people.

[Zioneer]

So Charlie Crist wasn't brave, he just realized that most Floridians think the embargo is foolish and unsuccessful.

[Clarko95 📚💰📈]

You can go to Iran or North Korea as a tourist, no problem. But God forbid you go to Cuba!

[Zioneer]

You can go to Iran or North Korea as a tourist, no problem. But God forbid you go to Cuba!

Well, going to North Korea might get you imprisoned by the Norks, but pretty much.

[MyRescueKittehRocks]

Cuba should've been brought into the American community when we beat Spain. As it is we should normalize relations with Cuba. Unlike most communistic dictatorships religious freedom seems to be respected to a great extent.

[AkSaber]

About freakin time.

[Cory]

Good to hear it. We've been being "sore winners" about it for too long.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Cuba should've been brought into the American community when we beat Spain. As it is we should normalize relations with Cuba. Unlike most communistic dictatorships religious freedom seems to be respected to a great extent.

The Cubans did not fight for forty years against Spanish occupation to become a U.S. state. If that had happened there would have been an insurgency on the level of what we faced in the Philippines.

Anyway, good news. The US diplomatic isolation of Cuba is counterproductive.

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I'll be for it, so long as the lifting of sanctions is combined with the release of political prisoner Alan
Gross.