Reassess the Nation's Offenses, Then Ask Raul Castro for Changes

   What are the crimes of Cuba? Dictatorship? Human rights violations? And, what are those human rights violations? Repression of political dissent? Unfair trails?

   Now -- not 1961, not 2006 -- would be a timely time to reevaluate the crimes of our Caribbean neighbor. What is happening there now, in 2014-2015? Whether we are set on a course of action -- ending the embargo or not -- we should consider where the country is now in the crimes we accuse it of? 

   Then, when we have reassessed the offenses, we should approach Cuba anew, if we find it is yet committing terrible offenses, and try to coax Raul Castro to change. Approach Cuba in the spirit of friendship, warmly, but ask it to make some changes.