Castro doesn't deserve the type of goverment he has. I see no reason for the U.S. to acknowledge it or support it EVER! To do so would be against everything we believe in as Americans, and would be an insult to the repressed and imprisoned Cuban people. Ronald Reagan was right in standing up against Communism in the 1980's, you can't compromise with tyranny EVER! Cuba isn't exactly socialist state like Sweden or Finland. It is a dictatorship of ideas and NOT a cooperative effort by a group of governed people. Plain and Simple. And Tyranny no matter the cause justifying it (health care benefits, workers rights, defeat of the mafia etc.) Is still tyranny. And governments that do this against their people are not only impractical governments, but are morally bankrupt as well. The U.S. must stand up for the liberty of Cuba especially now in the Post Cold War period when it finally has an oppportunity to bring about change to this imprisoned island, An island which is no longer a threat to the U.S. and our free society like it once was during the global domination expansionist era of the 1960's. With Cuban hands now tied militarily and financially, there is no reason to end the old policy we have worked so long and laboriously for. Castro is far from being our friend in the Post Cold War Era, if the Guns were his today as they were in the 1960's, could anyone doubt he would used them against Democracy and the U.S.A.? Thankfully we are no longer threatened by him, because historically he was defeated. However, his war of tyranny still remains: it hasn't reached America But it still effects millions of his own people each day. They are at war for their right to be human: to think their own thoughts, lead their own lives, and plan thier own futures. It is our obligation morally and strategically to help them win this war. Even if the war does not effect American's directly. Let's not compromise as Americans. We really are in the right, and Communism assuredly is in the wrong, and will always be so, and thus should (In the natural coarse of things) be forced to surrender! God Bless America! For at least under our system every person counts. And, also every person is respected for the individual talent he or she is!