With today's raising of the US Flag at our Embassy in Cuba, I was wondering what is everyone's opinion on normalizing relations with Cuba?

Bye-bye to those expensive Cuban cigars. Why not have diplomatic relations with a country we have a base in, 90 miles off our coast where the government is now US friendly. Havana will once again be a prime resort vacation destination if Michael Corleone has anything to say about it! :-)

SGM Steve Wettstein unfortunately this has been a unilateral attempt at limited reestablishment of relations with Cuba.
Anybody who believes that "free" trade will exist with Cuba is smoking something stronger than Cuban cigars:-) Expect significant import duties because Cuba is still primarily a communist run agrarian economy with a black market and limited internal industrial and re-fabrication capability. Much of there machinery and automobiles are from the 1950's. Cuba may have to do something drastic with its currency to be able to "afford" purchasing infrastructure improvement.
No extradition treaty has been signed and their are at least 70 fugitives from US justice living in Cuba at state expense including cop killer Joanne Chesimard [I understand that negotiations have been started in her extradition which would be a good thing.]
The rights of Cuban emigre's to this nation who are property owners in Cuba have not been advanced by this administration. There are many other aspects of this treaty which need to be modified - in addition to individual property owners, the nationalization of business and foreign-owned agriculture which was owned by US citizens and corporations through the 1950's affected a number of small investors as well as larger ones. Steps should be taken to redress their issues.
My wife escaped from Cuba at age 14 by not looking back at her parents. She was told she would be forbidden from leaving if she glanced back. Her dad had just been released from a concentration/reeducation camp. He had been incarcerated because he could not account for one of the cows that had been his prior to the revolution [everything belonged to the state of Cuba].
Phone calls are still monitored - my wife's family has many members still living there.
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SGM Steve Wettstein I think it is a great move. I just hope that the families who have escaped to the United States during this period will be allowed to visit their families without any retribution on the part of Cuba. This would show that relations have gone back to normal.