Miami Herald: As politically unpalatable as it may seem, the Obama administration’s decision

Miami Herald: As politically unpalatable as it may seem, the Obama administration’s decision to remove Cuba from the list of state sponsors of terrorism is an inevitable bow to reality. Cuba remains a repressive, one-party police state, but it no longer exports subversion throughout the hemisphere as it did when the Reagan administration placed it on the list in 1982. At the time, Cuba was actively engaged in supporting the FARC guerrilla movement in Colombia, among other terrorist groups. That’s what got it onto the list in the first place.

NEW ROLE FOR CUBA

Today, as the State Department’s own website acknowledges, Cuba is brokering a peace agreement between the leftist group and the Colombian government. It is no longer the hemisphere’s beacon of revolution, in large part because the Cuban model long ago lost its allure.

Congress now has 45 days to act if it wants to reject the removal, but that would obviously meet with President Barack Obama’s veto, even if it could win approval in the Senate, turning it into another unproductive political melodrama. Better to just skip it.