Play ball
The Treasury Department has come to senses, such as they are. The Feds had banned Cuba from participating in the World Baseball Classic, which will take place in San Juan and throughout the U.S. in March.
The government originally denied Cuba from taking the field because it was nostalgia week with foreign policy. Based on Cuba and Castro’s behavior in the 1960s, the U.S. has had a long-standing policy of not allowing certain financial transactions with the island nation.
The Bush administration reversed course Friday. Good. Castro is old and toothless and continued time and energy used to keep him near the top of our enemies list is not well spent. Greater evils exist, and none of them have a anyone who can throw a decent slider.
This is baseball. In an Olympic year, let’s hope we can keep foreign policy and sports separate.