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Obama needs someplace to build his presidential library I guess.It has been U.S. policy for decades to not legitimize the Castro regime by giving Cuba diplomatic recognition (until the Castros were dead). Now, within a few years of that eventuality, Obama has unilaterally decided to reverse course and give credibility and stature to those despots. Why now?
Close! One could argue that he (a) despises America; (b) loves left wing dictators; and/or (c) thinks there will be some political advantage to courting Cuban-Americans in Florida. However, the real reason he is recognizing Cuba is to give some relevance (a la Nixon/China) to his deteriorating legacy, even if it is not in the interests of the U.S. The pool of his narcissism is deep.