"The problem isn't that Cuba has a communist government. It's that we used to own Cuba. So it's stolen property now, and we're sore about losing it...I guess we must be starting to get over it, starting to talk to the thieves who stole it from us."


Not exactly.

Before the Spain v United States war in 1998, the US Congress had passed a bill that stated the US would not keep Cuba under any circumstances. We helped the Cuba Libra types set up a new government and asked only that we get a small piece of land for a naval base. That lease has been re-approved several times decades apart.