With today's raising of the US Flag at our Embassy in Cuba, I was wondering what is everyone's opinion on normalizing relations with Cuba?

I think it will be huge to have a friendly Cuba inside our sphere of influence. In the age of small terror groups operating independently we need more friends near our borders than ever. Plus cheaper Cuban cigars is always a bonus.

SGM Steve Wettstein I think it is going to be good for us in Florida from an economy standpoint. I think that our relations with Cuba were more a matter of Ego than they were anything else. The debacle that was bay of pigs was an embarrassment to the United States. The Cuban Missle Crisis, was an embarrassment on a global scale, simply because it showed just how close the US and USSR were to putting diplomacy aside and nuking the planet (that is my opinion, not any fact). So the US had to allow our ego to heal. Now it is time to let the past be the past and welcome trade with Cuba.

Good move trade will benefit, there will be travel opportunities, you can't keep enemies forever, all in all a great move.

I think it was time......

A whole new market for our businesses...

SGM Steve Wettstein
I believe in Free Trade so I am all for this.

I think it's a great thing. Working together instead of working separately is always a good thing, and I think we can learn a lot from each other.

You were three ranks higher than s civilian, rock on.

Perhaps if you knew anything about right wing terror groups you'd realize that some of these militias groups DID actively recruit returning veterans. Also at the time that this report was released a report on left wing terror groups was released. I have copies of both. It wasn't one sided as you would have us bbc.co believe.

Also LTC Di Muccio the Washington Times isn't fit to line a bird cage.

Pump it!