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Kelly McParland: 'Free' Cuba could carry a heavy price

Rebuilding a regime-changed Cuba would require Washington's long-term commitment and enormous expenditures, not something it's noted for

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Among the foreign lands Washington is busy trying to seize, reconstruct, reorder or bend to its will, Cuba arguably has the least to offer a flagrantly profit-oriented administration.

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Greenland has minerals and strategic advantage; Venezuela has oil and regional opportunity; Iran has oil and a menacing presence threatening to regional interests. Cuba has Cubans and not a lot else, unless you count nice weather, pleasant beaches and a run-down capital filled with scenic but mouldering architecture holding a certain allure for tourism.

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What’s in it for U.S. President Donald Trump’s team, then, other than finally removing a burr that’s been under the U.S. saddle since Fidel Castro overthrew a deeply corrupt but U.S.-friendly government in 1959, turning the island into a Soviet ally just a short boat-ride away across the Florida Straits?

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As usual, it’s tricky to guess what motivates the Trump White House when there’s no obvious financial advantage to be had. Cuba is anything........

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