As does every country in the world, bub.

And it's worth noting that the Cuban intelligence community is, in fact, incredibly small and mainly concentrates on Cuban expats living in Florida. They're not sneaking into missile silos and stealing NOC lists, they're basically at the level of private investigators keeping track of Cuban dissents who have escaped to the US. It's hardly a national security issue.

There are at least a dozen countries that do special operations within the US, breaking into places and whatnot. Cuban is not one of those countries, they don't have anywhere near the resources. (Most of those countries are, in fact, our 'allies', like France and Israel and the UK and other 'western' countries. And Russia. And we do it right back.)

But, what, exactly, are you worried Cuba is going to do? Will someone please state specifically the actual, real threat that any Cuban action could possibly pose to us? And then state how the embargo helps stop that?

The Chinese missiles are why we have the Stars Wars Missile Defence shield (We might have had a lot more of it if the Liberal prats in the US had not stopped development).

Cuba continues to export its political brand throughout the world. Cuba has an extremely effective intelligence agency which operates agents in the USA.

What do we really know about the offensive weapons capability of Cuba. Until recently, the US top Cuba analyst was a Cuban spy (You know, the one who rebutted John Bolton's assertions that Cuba had an offensive Chem/Bio facility).

China holding so much of our debt is a double edged sword. What will they do with it to attack the USA, sell it short?

I reiterate. The time to change our policy is when the Cuba government stops repressing its population and what would be the political opposition.

China is not parked off the coast of Florida.

So what?

China has Dong Feng class ballistic missiles, which can hit the US with nuclear weapons. Cuba has AK-47s. China also holds a great deal of our paper, which gives them economic power over us.

And guess who is footing the bill. Why you are, pal.

Our Cuba policy is a failure that is half a century old. Time for a change.

China is not parked off the coast of Florida.

The embargo, while an inconvenience, does not stop the Cubans from enacting change. Cuba's government has just started to allow its people access to more consumer goods.

When the government loosens its policies against opposition parties and others who speak out against the government then just maybe the US should consider a change. Then again, a few years ago the Cubans did relax restrictions, only to reenact them as soon as they got what they wanted.

Let us see. A communist, or at least a communist sympathizer wants to ease relations with a communist country.

It would be interesting indeed, to see what percentage of the things in III's home were manufactured in Communist China, a nation run by ruthless, brutal communists dictators.

Why does he purchase items of Chinese origin and thus underwrite their brutal communistic dictatorship? He must be a lover of socialistic life. Does he secretly hate America? It would seem so...

It is almost laughable that the right is perfectly happy to do business with communist China, a country that presents us with a number of serious national security and economic challenges, yet they wet themselves at the mere mention of Cuba, a nation that is about as much threat to America as an enraged gerbil.

the days of our Cuba policy being dramatically at odds with the opinions of most Americans may be approaching their end, no matter which major party candidate is elected in November.

I agree with this.

Cuba has only been an ideological threat for the last two decades, and nothing more. A shift in the public mind on our policies towards Cuba, and the weakened anti-castro lobby, is a reflection of this.

Cuba is too irrelevant for this to matter too much. It wouldn't take much to improve relations that the public could feel good about, but the wrong approach could be disastrous.