1961 was the last time the American Flag flew over the U.S. Embassy in Cuba. Today, during quite a splashy ceremony, it was raised once again.
The U.S. just raised a flag in #Cuba for the first time in 54 years http://t.co/rZfh2OAzWH pic.twitter.com/jZNIuvnCsn
— PolicyMic (@PolicyMic) August 14, 2015
Understandably, the reaction to this is mixed. On the one hand you have Secretary of State John Kerry lauding the reopening of the embassy in Havana and claiming that this is a policy win for all, Americans and Cubans. Interestingly he tied the progress in Cuba to his “work” twenty years ago in normalizing relations with Vietnam. Alrighty then. Yes, he may have jabbed at Cuba for their issues with dissidents (who were NOT invited to the flag raising ceremony), but it was a pretty weak jab at that.
On the other hand, there are many who vehemently disagree with opening the embassy. Some have very specific reasons for this. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) provided his reasoning in an op-ed to Fox News:
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