Many of my friends on the right ask: “Why can’t Americans travel to any country they wish to? Why can we go as tourists to China but not Cuba?”
It’s for the same reason we can’t go to North Korea or Iran: Cuba is a terrorist nation. China didn’t seize our assets or deploy nuclear weapons 90 miles off our coast. Cuba continues to actively promote hostility towards the U.S. in our hemisphere and our tourist dollars help prop up the Castro regime and prolong the agony of 11 million people.
U.S.-Cuba relations since 1959 have gone from strained to severe, to the closest we have ever come to nuclear Armageddon. Its always included provocations on Castro’s end of one degree or another and periodic rapprochements have been a colossal waste of time — except for an immigration accord which most Cuban exiles consider unwise.