A tongue-in-cheek article Sunday in the British newspaper The Mail by travel editor Frank Barrett skewers the U.S. government for not restoring travel to the island and compliments a British travel agency for its initiative. "In certain recondite corners of the American government, Dr. Strangeloves let their missile launching fingers stray towards the red button whenever anyone mentions the word 'Havana,'" Barrett writes. "American diplomats spend so much of the world's resources in the Middle East trying to broker peace amongst the Israelis and Palestinians, you wonder that they don’t think about declaring peace nearer to home.">A tongue-in-cheek article Sunday in the British newspaper The Mail by travel editor Frank Barrett skewers the U.S. government for not restoring travel to the island and compliments a British travel agency for its initiative. "In certain recondite corners of the American government, Dr. Strangeloves let their missile launching fingers stray towards the red button whenever anyone mentions the word 'Havana,'" Barrett writes. "American diplomats spend so much of the world's resources in the Middle East trying to broker peace amongst the Israelis and Palestinians, you wonder that they don’t think about declaring peace nearer to home.">

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A tongue-in-cheek article Sunday in the British newspaper The Mail by travel editor Frank Barrett skewers the U.S. government for not restoring travel to the island and compliments a British travel agency for its initiative.

"In certain recondite corners of the American government, Dr. Strangeloves let their missile launching fingers stray towards the red button whenever anyone mentions the word 'Havana,'" Barrett writes.

"American diplomats spend so much of the world's resources in the Middle East trying to broker peace amongst the Israelis and Palestinians, you wonder that they don’t think about declaring peace nearer to home.

"But still Americans risk being burned at the stake for the mere heresy of looking at a Cuban holiday brochure. If they dared to travel there, they would promptly be zapped by a drone missile.

"In terms of size and population, Cuba is less significant than a US state like Ohio, and yet it is treated with all the severity of Iran.

"Cuba ought to be a key stop on Caribbean cruise itineraries. Yet no American cruise company can touch it with a barge pole.

"So three cheers to Thomson [Travel Group] for last week including Cuba on the itinerary of the Thomson Dream, the first large cruise ship to visit the island for five years. Send in a thousand American cruise ships to Cuba."

Source: miamiherald.typepad.com/cuban_colada/2011/01/british-daily-advocates-cruise-diplomacy.html

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