Two members of the Squad made a secret trip to socialist Cuba. Only they didn't spend enough time to grasp the lost rights and oppression they would experience as citizens.
Conservatives are outraged that two members of the 'Squad,' Reps. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., and Ilhan Omar, D-Mich., made a secret visit to Cuba to meet with its socialist leadership. I'm not outraged in the least. In fact, I wish they would have stayed a little longer. Let me explain why. Half a century ago, when President Richard Nixon visited China, one of his congressional opponents cracked, 'I have no problem with President Nixon going to China.
An extra week or so in Havana might have found the members missing their loved ones — children, siblings, parents and grandparents. Of course, they got to fly home when they felt like it, unlike Cuban citizens, who are denied the right to travel and have been separated, some for more than half a century, from loved ones they may never see again.
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