Roll'em if you Got'em

It strikes me odd that our strategy with China is to engage them in commerce. The strategy touts a faith that by addicting China to the wonders of free enterprise, social and political freedoms will follow.
While I maintain tremendous trepidation as to the consequence of this relationship including; deficits, fueling China's military build up (including a world class navy), allowing China to hold over 60% of our national debt etc. I admit I could be wrong and that the elite have a good bead on this geopolitical gig.
However, if I concede that the IVY league and new world order guards have established a powerful mechanism for keeping communism in check then I have second question...
If international commerce is the Castro/Castor Oil to keep the commies at bay, how is it that we have yet to forge a similar relationship with Cuba?
Clearly, this island nation just 90 miles off our shore would be Freedom Fodder with a simple flip of the Free Market switch. Of course there is a history there, but we have already established meaningful commerce with Hanoi (Vietnam) where history was a bit more painful than the missile crisis of 1962.
I say, what's good for the "Chi" is good for and "Cube" and I can quit sneaking in my Cuban cigars.
Of course, Florida's 25 electoral votes hinge on a interesting and varied group of voting blocks. Could it be that butterfly ballots, the Grey Panthers and the exiled Cubans have that much control over my smoking decision?

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