World Baseball Challenge

So Cuba won't be allowed to compete in the upcoming baseball challenge. This is because of the US's laws against trading with Cuba. This is absolutely stupid. I mean really, this would be like not allowing Canada to participate in the World Cup of Hockey, or Brazil be in the World Cup. I mean does anybody outside of Miami care if there is any trade with Cuba? What does it really benifit the US to not trade with Cuba because of Castro? Let's be honest, Cuba is not a threat to the US. They are living in 1954 (kind of like the US trade restrictions). Seriously, even if Cuba was to the technological and financial power of a first world country, there would be no threat to the US. And the illegal immegrant tide would be slowed as a life in a modern stable Cuba would be palatable and the raft ride would be that much less enticing. And further more, how does not allowing twenty some odd Cubans play in a base ball tournament further the global war against communism (which let's not forget died with the Berlin Wall). The crew running the tournament plan to appeal this as they feel, and I agree, that this is stupid. Remember, the US trades or traded with Iran, North Korea, the USSR, China, Columbia, anywhere in Africa, Yugoslavia (and the republics which arose out of that lovely little engagement) all of whom have as bad as or worse human rights or international law violations than Cuba. India and Pakistan developed nukes for Christ's sake! Israel's treatment of Palestinians has been sketchy at best. Iraq's oil under Hussein was OK and he mustard gassed the Kurds! It is long past the time that the US admit it's Cuba policy makes as much sense as a sunroof in a submarine (terrible joke I know, I'm very tired).