1.0 link 87344 <![CDATA[Time to Retire America's Failed Cuba Policy]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sarah-stephens/time-to-retire-americas-f_b_87344.html This is the event that fifty years of U.S. policy was designed to stop.

Fidel Castro has announced his retirement. He will be replaced in a peaceful succession, without the violent upheaval that U.S. policy makers have been predicting since the 1960s.

Now that Fidel Castro has announced his retirement, it's time to retire our Cold War era Cuba policy. It failed.

Every U.S. president since Eisenhower has tried to kill or topple Fidel Castro and replace Cuba's government and...

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