[Skybird]

The latest indications that the US policy towards Cuba will become a bit more relaxed, has my support. Can't say the same regarding today'S new'S reports that due to a more relaxed US stance European diplomacy dares to start becoming closer with Hamas.

The "Obama doctrine" to start playing more softly with everybody, no matter whom, seems to produce a bag of mixed results, depending on the faction that gets treatment by it. In case of Cuba, I see little or no problem with it. With regard to Hamas and Iran, or any Islamic faction, I see US diplomacy being pushed into the defensive, and EU diplomacy becoming even more submissive to Islam. Regarding Pakistan and promising to give them even more money, I label that as a naive folly. Regarding North Korea - cannot judge at this time.

But Cuba -well, for the sake of the Cuban people, yes, try something new there, the past 40 years have not created anything more than a big block of ice - and Castro probably was the one Cuban suffering not at all from that. whenever I heared tourists reporting about their experience with the Cubans, they always seem to have only good things to say, how friendly they are despite their economic misery, how relaxed life is going despite the problems, and that one must not be afraid to walk alone on the city's streets in the middle of the night.

It cannot all be bad about Cuba. One of the very few remaining places on earth I eventually would consider to give one more travel to.