I know a little bit about it being in Gitmo, not as a detainee, as an officer, but you do Gitmo and you see beautiful coastline, obviously tropical climate and everything. And If that [Cuba] had even a modestly normal non-communist government, that island would boom. They would do really, really well. You would see, honestly, they would probably compete with Florida and some of the, some of the tourists, they certainly would compete with Bahamas and Dominican and some of the others. (43:47–43:56)
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Asserts that Cuba would economically prosper with a non-communist government.
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