Headline: Obama to remove Cuba from terrorism support list

Talk about a relic! Cuba was put on that list back when it was supporting left-wing guerrilla governments and movements in South and Central America in the 1980s by the avid Cold Warriors in the Reagan Administration. I don’t say that Reagan and his boys supported the Contras in Nicaragua solely because Castro backed the Sandinistas, but I’ll bet that was enough goad to add to their reasons for doing so.

These days Cuba is acting as a peacemaker between the Colombian government and the FARC rebel movement. It’s been host and guarantor of talks since November 2012.

As I’m sure Obama has said to lots of people, it’s time to take Cuba off this list. It’s past time, really.